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Definitioner
Adjektiv
- Causing sharp pain; stinging.
- Sharp; keen; poignant.
- Exhibiting social ability or cleverness.
- Exhibiting intellectual knowledge, such as that found in books.
- (often, in combination) Equipped with intelligent behaviour.
- Good-looking.
- Cleverly shrewd and humorous in a way that may be rude and disrespectful.
- Sudden and intense.
- (US, Southern, dated) Intense in feeling; painful. Used usually with the adverb intensifier right.
- (archaic) Efficient; vigorous; brilliant.
- (archaic) Pretentious; showy; spruce.
- (archaic) Brisk; fresh.
Verb
- (intransitive) To hurt or sting.
- (transitive) To cause a smart or sting in.
- To feel a pungent pain of mind; to feel sharp pain or grief; to suffer; to feel the sting of evil.
Substantiv
- A sharp, quick, lively pain; a sting.
- Mental pain or suffering; grief; affliction.
- Smart-money.
- (slang, dated) A dandy; one who is smart in dress; one who is brisk, vivacious, or clever.
Exempel
- He became tired of his daughter's sarcasm and smart remarks.
- Counsel mitigates the greatest smart.
- To stand 'twixt us and our deserved smart.
- a smart breeze
- a smart gown
- The stars shine smarter.
- That cast on his leg chaffs him right smart.
- He raised his voice, and it hurt her feelings right smart.
- There is a smart shower at 5 P.M., and in the midst of it a hummingbird is busy about the flowers in the garden, unmindful of it, though you would think that each big drop that struck him would be a serious accident.
- smart skirmishes, in which many fell
- a sentence or two, [...] which I thought very smart
- Who, for the poor renown of being smart / Would leave a sting within a brother's heart?
- After being hit with a pitch, the batter exclaimed "Ouch, my arm smarts!"
- a smart outfit
- smartcard, smartphone
- smart bomb, smart car
- I always preferred the church, and I still do. But that was not smart enough for my family. They recommended the army. That was a great deal too smart for me.
- a smart pain
- How smart a lash that speech doth give my conscience.
- He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it.
- No creature smarts so little as a fool.
- A goad that [...] smarts the flesh.
- He moved convulsively, and as he did so, said, "I'll be quiet, Doctor. Tell them to take off the strait waistcoat. I have had a terrible dream, and it has left me so weak that I cannot move. What's wrong with my face? It feels all swollen, and it smarts dreadfully."
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