smartadjective
uk/smɑːt/us/smɑːrt/smart adjective (STYLISH)
B1 mainly UK having a clean, tidy, and stylish appearance:
B1 mainly UK A place or event that is smart attracts fashionable, stylish, or rich people:
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- She tends to wear quite smart clothes for work.
- I need some smart trousers for work.
- I wanted a more casual jacket - that one's a bit smart.
- Paul had booked us into a very smart little hotel off the main square.
- The nightclub is popular with Berlin's smart set.
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Smart & elegant
- clean-cut
- cut
- cut a fine figure idiom
- dapper
- debonair
- done/dressed (up) to the nines idiom
- dressed (up) to the nines idiom
- dressed to kill idiom
- elegant
- natty
- nine
- not a hair out of place idiom
- resplendent
- smarten (sb/sth) up
- spiff sb/sth up
- spiffy
- spruce
- spruce sb/sth up
- stylish
- well dressed
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smart adjective (INTELLIGENT)
B1 mainly US intelligent, or able to think quickly or intelligently in difficult situations:
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- He's a very smart kid.
- She's not especially academic but she's smart enough.
- Steve's as smart as anyone I know with figures.
- He's smart enough to know an opportunity when he sees one.
- He was a very smart guy.
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Intelligence
- acuity
- acumen
- agile
- apt
- artful
- as (if) to the manner born idiom
- brilliance
- gumption
- highbrow
- horse sense
- imaginative
- ingenious
- presence of mind
- quick-witted
- razor-sharp
- ready
- resource
- resourceful
- scholarly
- sharply
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smart adjective (QUICK)
[ before noun ] done quickly with a lot of force or effort:
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Hurrying and doing things quickly
- accelerate
- acceleration
- against the clock idiom
- against time/the clock idiom
- alacrity
- dash
- dose
- grease
- haste
- hasten
- hasty
- hit/press/push the panic button idiom
- rattle through sth
- rush
- rush into sth
- rush job
- rushed
- scrabble
- snap
- throw
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smart adjective (WORKING BY COMPUTER)
C1 A smart machine, weapon, etc. uses computers to make it work so that it is able to act in an independent way:
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Computer concepts
- aeroplane mode
- airplane mode
- atomicity
- augmented reality
- back end
- clone
- cloud
- corruption
- default to sth
- desktop
- electronic
- gigabyte
- GUI
- reboot
- template
- tuple
- virtual
- virtually
- web hosting
- what you see is what you get idiom
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smart adjective (WITHOUT RESPECT )
mainly US not showing respect, especially when making a funny remark:
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Rude and cheeky
- backchat
- cheeky
- chutzpah
- cocksure
- cocky
- fruity
- gobby
- impertinent
- liberty
- lip
- lippy
- mouthy
- neanderthal
- offensive
- personally
- presumptuous
- sass
- sick
- smart mouth
- unpleasant
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smartadverb
uk/smɑːt//smɑːrt/in a clever and effective way:
smartverb [ I ]
uk/smɑːt/us/smɑːrt/to hurt with a sharp pain:
to feel upset and angry because of failure or criticism:
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Pain & painful
- -racked
- achy
- agonizing
- cluster headache
- dodgy
- earache
- hell
- masochism
- non-ulcer stomach pain
- painful
- painfully
- rack
- racking
- shooting pains
- sore
- suffering
- tender
- throb
- torment
- wince
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