showing mental alertness and calculation and resourcefulness
<adj.all>
elegant and stylish
<adj.all> chic elegance a smart new dress a suit of voguish cut
characterized by quickness and ease in learning
<adj.all> some children are brighter in one subject than another smart children talk earlier than the average
improperly forward or bold
<adj.all> don't be fresh with me impertinent of a child to lecture a grownup an impudent boy given to insulting strangers Don't get wise with me!
painfully severe
<adj.all> he gave the dog a smart blow
quick and brisk
<adj.all> I gave him a smart salute we walked at a smart pace
capable of independent and apparently intelligent action
<adj.all> smart weapons
Smart \Smart\, v. t. To cause a smart in. ``A goad that . . . smarts the flesh.'' --T. Adams.
Smart \Smart\, n. [OE. smerte. See {Smart}, v. i.] 1. Quick, pungent, lively pain; a pricking local pain, as the pain from puncture by nettles. ``In pain's smart.'' --Chaucer.
2. Severe, pungent pain of mind; pungent grief; as, the smart of affliction.
To stand 'twixt us and our deserved smart. --Milton.
Counsel mitigates the greatest smart. --Spenser.
3. A fellow who affects smartness, briskness, and vivacity; a dandy. [Slang] --Fielding.
4. Smart money (see below). [Canf]
Smart \Smart\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Smarted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Smarting}.] [OE. smarten, AS. smeortan; akin to D. smarten, smerten, G. schmerzen, OHG. smerzan, Dan. smerte, SW. sm["a]rta, D. smart, smert, a pain, G. schmerz, Ohg. smerzo, and probably to L. mordere to bite; cf. Gr. ????, ?????, terrible, fearful, Skr. m?d to rub, crush. Cf. {Morsel}.] 1. To feel a lively, pungent local pain; -- said of some part of the body as the seat of irritation; as, my finger smarts; these wounds smart. --Chaucer. --Shak.
2. To feel a pungent pain of mind; to feel sharp pain or grief; to suffer; to feel the sting of evil.
No creature smarts so little as a fool. --Pope.
He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it. --Prov. xi. 15.
Smart \Smart\, a. [Compar. {Smarter}; superl. {Smartest}.] [OE. smerte. See {Smart}, v. i.] 1. Causing a smart; pungent; pricking; as, a smart stroke or taste.
How smart lash that speech doth give my conscience. --Shak.
2. Keen; severe; poignant; as, smart pain.
3. Vigorous; sharp; severe. ``Smart skirmishes, in which many fell.'' --Clarendon.
4. Accomplishing, or able to accomplish, results quickly; active; sharp; clever. [Colloq.]
6. Marked by acuteness or shrewdness; quick in suggestion or reply; vivacious; witty; as, a smart reply; a smart saying.
Who, for the poor renown of being smart Would leave a sting within a brother's heart? --Young.
A sentence or two, . . . which I thought very smart. --Addison.
7. Pretentious; showy; spruce; as, a smart gown.
8. Brisk; fresh; as, a smart breeze.
{Smart money}. (a) Money paid by a person to buy himself off from some unpleasant engagement or some painful situation. (b) (Mil.) Money allowed to soldiers or sailors, in the English service, for wounds and injures received; also, a sum paid by a recruit, previous to being sworn in, to procure his release from service. (c) (Law) Vindictive or exemplary damages; damages beyond a full compensation for the actual injury done. --Burrill. --Greenleaf.
{Smart ticket}, a certificate given to wounded seamen, entitling them to smart money. [Eng.] --Brande & C.
Usage: {Smart}, {Clever}. Smart has been much used in New England to describe a person who is intelligent, vigorous, and active; as, a smart young fellow; a smart workman, etc., conciding very nearly with the English sense of clever. The nearest approach to this in England is in such expressions as, he was smart (pungent or witty) in his reply, etc.; but smart and smartness, when applied to persons, more commonly refer to dress; as, a smart appearance; a smart gown, etc.
From smart shops in Tokyo to the White House dinner table, water from the mineral springs of Appalachia suddenly has cachet, and West Virginia bottlers are helping quench the thirst of the health-conscious.
First there was the smart house, then the smart car.
First there was the smart house, then the smart car.
And their manners: each one appeared to have mastered the art of being polite without aloofness, charming without unction. The dress code of the evening was smart by most standards, but casual according to Eton rubric.
But if the card is lost what we want is some mechanism of cancelling the card and returning the unused value to the customer.' Creative Star has set ERG a demanding specification for recharging the smart card.
He rushes through one formula after another, and at one point tells his class: "There are three other solutions, but you're smart.
"It's not smart to have too many eggs in one basket," he said.
He also estimates that the U.S. has 3,000 to 4,000 smart missiles in inventory, and production of more of these weapons also is under way.
But smart shoppers keep in mind the novelties they've seen as inspiration from this fashion capital.
So the smart money was always on the next president of the Royal Academy being an architect. Few surprises then that Sir Philip Dowson has been tapped to succeed Sir Roger de Grey as president of the Royal Academy.
After that endlessly sobering experience, it's a pleasure to indulge in a smart little piece of froth like Woody Allen's "Alice."
The papers are being deployed with his customary skill by Labour's Mr Robin Cook, who is 'releasing' them in batches aimed, as smart bombs are to their targets, at the TV news headlines.
Bruce Nobles, president of Trump Shuttle Inc., liked the bargain fare. "It was a smart idea in this circumstance," Nobles said from his New York office.
General Motors President Robert C. Stempel said GM and other companies are studying "smart cars and smart highways" that would be computerized for increased safety and efficiency.
General Motors President Robert C. Stempel said GM and other companies are studying "smart cars and smart highways" that would be computerized for increased safety and efficiency.
Shareholders also need regular access to directors to evaluate their progress, if the Cadbury code is to be enacted. The Treasury's proposals will have the perverse effect of encouraging smart insiders who can cover their tracks.
The group was making a smart turnaround until it reported recurring problems with its FSD-II nine-inch disk drive.
"I don't believe in beauty contests, but if you're smart, you can use them to open doors for you," she said in a recent interview.
Mr. Digate says that Beyond will refine the product "so the message will be smart enough to know to come back and bother you again next week."
"He's very smart, but he has fantasies," Ms. Bikont says.
More than one card will work with a single GSM phone to enable separate business and social use. There is also talk of using smart cards to pay UK road tolls if the British government's idea of introducing selective road charging goes ahead.
The rest may come later." "Obviously, being president is on his mind," says former Democratic National Chairman Robert Strauss. "He's that smart and that shrewd and that ambitious.
The smart money is on a long IGC, probably lasting beyond the next UK election.
And it shouldn't be too bright: A smart bull may go for the bullfighter rather than for his cape.
"But Moe always came out as not so smart after all.
Main Street looks smart, perhaps helped by the Georgia Main Street Project (a civic trust type of scheme).
Basically, everyone's just trying to figure out what everyone else is buying." But Japan's financial markets were smart enough to realize that wealth begets wealth.
"They're smart enough to know they can't discover everything," said Bartash.
"I wish my dealers were smart enough to grab something of their own, but they're not," says Mr. Ferrara, head of the New Jersey retailers group.
A reproduction of a Vermeer portrait leans Madonna-like over a love-making sequence; fishing tableaux gaze down on smart eaters in a restaurant.