smartly

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   in a stylish manner

   They were smartly dressed for an evening out.

2. 2
   adv

   With a fine or fashionable appearance.

   Smartly dressed.

3. 3
   adv

   Quickly.

   She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realizing that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.

4. 4
   adv

   with vigor

From Middle English smertly; equivalent to smart + -ly.

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