smart

adjective

• 1(of a person) clean, tidy, and well dressed:you look very smart
• (of clothes) attractively neat and stylish:a smart blue skirt
• (of an object) bright and fresh in appearance:a smart green van
• (of a place) fashionable and upmarket:a smart restaurant

• 2 informal having or showing a quick-witted intelligence:if he was that smart he would never have been tricked
• (of a device) programmed so as to be capable of some independent action:hi-tech smart weapons
• chiefly North American showing impertinence by making clever or sarcastic remarks:don’t get smart or I’ll whack you one

• 3quick; brisk:he set off at a smart pace

verb

• (of part of the body) feel a sharp stinging pain:her legs were scratched and smarting (as adjective smarting)Susan rubbed her smarting eyes
• feel upset and annoyed:defence chiefs are still smarting from the government’s cuts

noun

• 1 [mass noun] sharp stinging pain:the smart of the recent cuts
• archaic mental pain or suffering:sorrow is the effect of smart, and smart the effect of faith

• 2 (smarts) North American informal intelligence; acumen:I don’t think I have the smarts for it