smart

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Intelligent and clever.

   She is smart enough to solve the problem on her own.

2. 2
   adj

   Using computer technology to behave intelligently.

   He controls the lights in his house with a smart phone app.

3. 3
   verb

   To feel a sharp, stinging pain.

   The cut on my hand smarted when I washed it.

Common collocations

• smart kid Adjective + noun
• smart move Adjective + noun

From Middle English smert, smart, from Old English smeart (“smarting, smart, painful”), from Proto-West Germanic *smart, from Proto-Germanic *smartaz (“hurting, aching”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)merd- (“to bite, sting”). Cognate with Scots smert (“painful, smart”), Old Frisian smert (“sharp, painful”).

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