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      smart
      noun
      A sharp, quick, lively pain; a sting.
      Mental pain or suffering; grief; affliction.
      A surname.
      Clipping of smart money. [(collective, finance) Experienced, well-informed investors, gamblers, etc. considered as a group.]
      (computer hardware) Acronym of self-monitoring, analysis and reporting technology; also S.M.A.R.T.: a monitoring system included in computer HDDs and SSDs in order to detect and report various indicators of drive reliability with the intent of anticipating imminent hardware failures.
      Acronym of International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers.
      (slang, dated) A dandy; one who is smart in dress; one who is brisk, vivacious, or clever.
      verb
      (intransitive) To hurt or sting.
      (transitive) To cause a smart or sting in.
      (intransitive) To feel a pungent pain of mind; to feel sharp pain or grief; to be punished severely; to feel the sting of evil.
      adjective
      Exhibiting social ability or cleverness.
      (informal) Exhibiting intellectual knowledge, such as that found in books.
      (often in combination) Equipped with intelligent behaviour (digital/computer technology).
      Good-looking; well dressed; fine; fashionable.
      Cleverly shrewd and humorous in a way that may be rude and disrespectful.
      Sudden and intense.
      Causing sharp pain; stinging.
      Sharp; keen; poignant.
      (Appalachia) Hard-working.
      (mnemonic) An acronym for remembering desirable characteristics for goal-setting: specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, timebound. (See SMART criteria on Wikipedia.Wikipedia)
      (Southern US, dated) Intense in feeling; painful. Used usually with the adverb intensifier right.
      (archaic) Efficient; vigorous; brilliant.
      (archaic) Pretentious; showy; spruce.
      (archaic) Brisk; fresh.
      Synonyms for smart
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      Words related to smart
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