This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience. Learn more

Another word for pert

a-z
Adjective

  1. Very brisk, alert, and full of high spirits

    Idioms:
    See also:

    action

  2. Rude and disrespectful

    See also:

    courtesy

    attitude

© Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Another word for pert

Modifier
  1. See also:

    rude

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • Shadows played across the delicate, pert features.

  • Henry Thrale, one of the most opulent brewers in the kingdom, a man .of sound and cultivated understanding, rigid principles, and liberal spirit, was married to one of those clever, kind-hearted, engaging, vain, pert young women who are perpetually doing or saying what is not exactly right, but who, do or say what they may, are always agreeable.

  • I'm pert near twenty-one.

  • The voluptuous brunette was pert and sophisticated.

  • "On my word," he exclaimed, "it's little Jellia Jamb--as pert and pretty as ever!"

More sentences →

Related Articles

More Articles →

Words that mention pert in the Dictionary

Words near pert in the Thesaurus