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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
smart/smɑːt/
adjective
  • 1 clean, tidy, and stylish.
  • 2 bright and fresh in appearance.
  • 3 (of a place) fashionable and upmarket.
  • 4 informal having a quick intelligence.

    ■ (of a device) programmed so as to be capable of independent action.

    chiefly N. Amer. impertinently clever or sarcastic.

  • 5 quick; brisk.
verb
  • 1 give a sharp, stinging pain.
  • 2 feel upset and annoyed.
noun
  • 1 (smarts) N. Amer. informal intelligence; acumen.
  • 2 a smarting pain.
– phrases
look smart chiefly Brit. be quick.
– derivatives
smarting adjective,
smartingly adverb,
smartly adverb,
smartness noun.
– origin OE smeortan (v.), of W. Gmc origin.
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