SMART
verb
Definitions
- 1. To feel a lively, pungent local pain; -- said of some part of the body as the seat of irritation; as, my finger smarts; these wounds smart. Chaucer. Shak.
- 2. To feel a pungent pain of mind; to feel sharp pain or grief; to suffer; to feel the sting of evil. No creature smarts so little as a fool. Pope. He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it. Prov. xi. 15.
Other Definitions
This word also has 2 other definitions:
SMART
(adjective)
1. Causing a smart; pungent; pricking; as, a smart stroke or taste. How smart lash that speech doth give my conscience. Shak.
2. Keen; severe; poigna...
SMART
(noun)
1. Quick, pungent, lively pain; a pricking local pain, as the pain from puncture by nettles. "In pain's smart." Chaucer.
2. Severe, pungent pain of m...
Added: October 09, 2025
Updated: October 09, 2025
