SMART
noun
Definitions
- 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 mind; pungent grief; as, the smart of affliction. To stand 'twixt us and our deserved smart. Milton. Counsel mitigates the greatest smart. Spenser.
- 3. A fellow who affects smartness, briskness, and vivacity; a dandy. [Slang] Fielding.
- 4. Smart money (see below). [Canf]
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
(verb)
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...
Added: October 09, 2025
Updated: October 09, 2025
