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Another word for smart

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Adjective

  1. Mentally quick and original

    Idioms:
    See also:

    ability

  2. Amusing or pleasing because of wit or originality

    See also:

    laughter

  3. Rude and disrespectful

    See also:

    courtesy

    attitude

  4. Having or showing a clever awareness and resourcefulness in practical matters

    See also:

    careful

    ability

  5. Being or in accordance with the current fashion

    Idioms:
    See also:

    usual

    style

Verb

  1. To feel or cause to feel a sensation of heat or discomfort

      1. To pierce or wound painfully with a sharp-pointed structure or organ, as that of certain insects.
      2. To cause to feel a sharp, smarting pain:
      3. To cause to suffer keenly in the mind or feelings:
      1. To undergo combustion or be consumed as fuel:
      2. To be damaged, injured, or destroyed by fire, heat, radiation, electricity, or a caustic agent:
      3. To consume fuel:
      1. To cut, grip, or tear with or as if with the teeth.
      2. To pierce the skin of with the teeth, fangs, or mouthparts.
      3. To sting with a stinger.
    See also:

    pain

Noun

  1. A sensation of physical discomfort occurring as the result of disease or injury

      1. The state of suffering and want as a result of physical circumstances or extreme poverty.
      2. Mental or emotional unhappiness or distress:
      3. A cause or source of suffering:
      1. A sharp, sudden physical pain.
      2. A mental or emotional pain:
      3. To feel or be the source of a twinge or twinges:
      1. A severe pang or spasm of pain, as in childbirth.
      2. A condition of extreme difficulty or trouble:
      1. A single complete movement of a threaded needle in sewing or surgical suturing:
      2. A single loop of thread or yarn made with an implement such as a sewing or knitting needle.
      3. A single loop or knot of thread used in closing a wound or incision in surgery; a suture.
      1. To pierce or wound painfully with a sharp-pointed structure or organ, as that of certain insects.
      2. To cause to feel a sharp, smarting pain:
      3. To cause to suffer keenly in the mind or feelings:
      1. To pierce or wound with or as if with a pointed weapon.
      2. To plunge (a pointed weapon or instrument) into something.
      3. To make a thrusting or poking motion at or into:
      1. The property, state, or condition of being sore; painfulness.
      1. A small hard pointed outgrowth of the epidermis of a plant, in contrast to a modified plant organ such as a spine or thorn.
      2. A spine, thorn, or other small sharp structure.
      3. A tingling or pricking sensation:
      1. The act of piercing or pricking.
      2. The sensation of being pierced or pricked.
      3. A persistent or sharply painful feeling of sorrow or remorse.
      1. A sudden sharp bodily pain:
      2. A sudden sharp feeling of emotional distress:
      3. To feel sharp bodily pains.
      1. An unpleasant feeling occurring as a result of injury or disease, usually localized in some part of the body:
      2. Bodily suffering characterized by such feelings:
      3. Mental or emotional suffering; distress.
      1. To suffer a dull, sustained pain.
      2. To feel sympathy or compassion:
      3. To yearn or long:
    See also:

    pain

  2. The faculty of thinking, reasoning, and acquiring and applying knowledge.

      1. The natural ability to perceive and understand; intelligence.
      2. Practical intelligence; shrewdness or resourcefulness:
      3. Sound mental faculties; sanity:
      1. The ability by which one understands; intelligence:
      2. The quality or condition of one who understands; comprehension:
      3. Individual or specified judgment or outlook; opinion:
      1. Any of the faculties by which stimuli from outside or inside the body are received and felt, as the faculties of hearing, sight, smell, touch, taste, and equilibrium.
      2. A perception or feeling produced by a stimulus; sensation:
      3. The faculties of sensation as means of providing physical gratification and pleasure.
      1. The part or faculty of a person by which one feels, perceives, thinks, remembers, desires, and imagines:
      2. A person of great mental ability:
      3. Individual consciousness, memory, or recollection:
      1. Cast or turn of mind:
      2. The sum of a person's intellectual capabilities or endowment.
      1. The ability to acquire, understand, and use knowledge:
      2. Information, especially secret information gathered about an actual or potential enemy or adversary.
      3. The gathering of such information:
      1. The ability to learn and reason; the capacity for knowledge and understanding:
      2. A person's individual ability to think and reason:
      3. A person of great intellectual ability:
      1. Intellectual capacity.
      2. People of well-developed mental abilities:
    See also:

    thoughts

    ability

© 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 smart

Modifier

  1. Intelligent

      1. Moving or functioning rapidly and energetically; speedy:
      2. Learning, thinking, or understanding with speed and dexterity; bright:
      3. Perceiving or responding with speed and sensitivity; keen:
      1. Emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts; shining.
      2. Comparatively high on the scale of brightness:
      3. Full of light or illumination:
      1. Mentally quick and original; bright:
      2. Skilled at accomplishing things, especially with the hands:
      3. Crafty; cunning:
    See also:

    intelligent

  2. Impudent

    See also:

    rude

  3. Vigorous

    See also:

    active

  4. Shrewd

    See also:

    sly

  5. Fashionable

    See also:

    intelligent

    fashionable

Verb
  1. See also:

    hurt

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Sentence Examples

  • I can tell you're a smart girl, Brenda.

  • The guy is smart and does his homework.

  • See how smart she's made herself!

  • She's cute as a princess and smart, like her mother.

  • You're just as smart as any one of them.

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