Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - smart

(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 • smartly He dressed very smartly which was important in those days. ...a smartly-painted door. ADV: ADV with v • smartness 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