smart

1 adjective

1 CLEVER especially AmE

a) intelligent: The smart kids get good grades and go off to college. | Some smart lawyer got him out of jail.

b) trying to seem clever in a disrespectful way: Don't get smart with me, young man.

2 WELL-DRESSED BrE wearing neat attractive clothes and having a generally tidy appearance: Chris was looking very smart in his new grey suit.

3 FASHIONABLE BrE fashionable or used by fashionable people: one of Bonn's smartest restaurants

4 QUICK a smart movement is done quickly and with force: a smart blow on the head. | at a smart pace (=fairly fast): The horse set off at a smart pace.

5 EXCELLENT BrE old-fashioned excellent

— smartly adverb: smartly dressed women | He turned smartly and walked away — smartness noun (U) 2 verb

1 to be upset because someone has hurt your feelings or offended you: be smarting from: She was still smarting from the insult.

2 (I) if a part of your body smarts, it hurts with a stinging pain: My eyes were smarting from the smoke.

3 noun (singular)

1 a feeling that you have when you are upset and offended by something

2 a stinging pain

3 smarts (U) AmE informal intelligence: If she had any smarts, she'd get rid of the guy.