SMART


Meaning of SMART in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ smɑ:(r)t ]

( smarter, smartest, smarts, smarting, smarted)

Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.

1.

Smart people and things are pleasantly neat and clean in appearance. ( mainly BRIT )

He was smart and well groomed but not good looking...

I was dressed in a smart navy blue suit.

...smart new offices.

ADJ

• smart‧ly

He dressed very smartly which was important in those days.

...a smartly-painted door.

ADV : ADV with v

• smart‧ness

The jumper strikes the perfect balance between comfort and smartness.

N-UNCOUNT

2.

You can describe someone who is clever as smart .

He thinks he’s smarter than Sarah is...

Buying expensive furniture is not necessarily the smartest move to make.

ADJ

see also smartly , street smart

3.

A smart place or event is connected with wealthy and fashionable people.

...smart London dinner parties.

...a smart residential district.

ADJ : usu ADJ n

4.

Smart bombs and weapons are guided by computers and lasers so that they hit their targets accurately.

ADJ : ADJ n

5.

If a part of your body or a wound smarts , you feel a sharp stinging pain in it.

My eyes smarted from the smoke.

= sting

VERB : V

6.

If you are smarting from something such as criticism or failure, you feel upset about it. ( JOURNALISM )

The Americans were still smarting from their defeat in the Vietnam War...

VERB : usu cont , V from n

7.

the smart money: see money

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