Nouns (2)
right smart
n. a kind of pain such as that caused by a wound or a burn or a sore
smarting
n. a kind of pain such as that caused by a wound or a burn or a sore
Verbs (2)
hurt, ache
v. be the source of pain
Adverbs (0)
Adjectives (15)
smart
adj. showing mental alertness and calculation and resourcefulness
smart
adj. of or associated with people of fashion; "the fashionable side of town"; "the smart set"
fine
adj. characterized by elegance or refinement or accomplishment; "fine wine"; "looking fine in her Easter suit"; "a fine gentleman"; "fine china and crystal"; "a fine violinist"; "the fine hand of a master"
chic
adj. elegant and stylish; "chic elegance"; "a smart new dress"; "a suit of voguish cut"
bright
adj. characterized by quickness and ease in learning; "some children are brighter in one subject than another"; "smart children talk earlier than the average"
fresh, impertinent, impudent, overbold, saucy
adj. improperly forward or bold; "don't be fresh with me"; "impertinent of a child to lecture a grownup"; "an impudent boy given to insulting strangers"; "Don't get wise with me!"
trim, trig, spruce, neat, well-groomed
adj. of persons
Fuzzynyms (112)
stab, knife
v. use a knife on; "The victim was knifed to death"
touch, disturb
v. tamper with; "Don't touch my CDs!"
worry, kill by biting, lacerate by biting
v. lacerate by biting; "the dog worried his bone"
trim, trig, spruce, smart, neat, well-groomed
adj. of persons
modish, stylish, in vogue, in style, a la mode, à la mode
adj. in the current fashion or style
fashionable
adj. being or in accordance with current social fashions; "fashionable clothing"; "the fashionable side of town"; "a fashionable cafe"
swank, ritzy, swanky
adj. luxuriously elegant
spruce, jaunty, raffish, rakish, snappy, dapper, dashing, natty
adj. marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners; "a dapper young man"; "a jaunty red hat"
exquisite
adj. of extreme beauty; "her exquisite face"
precocious
adj. characterized by or characteristic of exceptionally early development or maturity (especially in mental aptitude); "a precocious child"; "a precocious achievement"
sharp, astute, shrewd
adj. marked by practical hardheaded intelligence; "a smart businessman"; "an astute tenant always reads the small print in a lease"; "he was too shrewd to go along with them on a road that could lead only to their overthrow"
perspicacious, sagacious, sapient
adj. acutely insightful and wise; "much too perspicacious to be taken in by such a spurious argument"; "observant and thoughtful, he was given to asking sagacious questions"; "a source of valuable insights and sapient advice to educators"
slick, cunning, crafty, dodgy, foxy, guileful, knavish, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily
adj. marked by skill in deception; "cunning men often pass for wise"; "deep political machinations"; "a foxy scheme"; "a slick evasive answer"; "sly as a fox"; "tricky Dick"; "a wily old attorney"
gifted, talented
adj. endowed with talent or talents; " a gifted writer"
resourceful
adj. having inner resources; adroit or imaginative; "someone who is resourceful is capable of dealing with difficult situations"; "an able and resourceful politician"; "the most resourceful cook in town"
bantering, facetious, tongue-in-cheek, witty
adj. cleverly amusing in tone; "a bantering tone"; "facetious remarks"; "tongue-in-cheek advice"
ingenious, imaginative, inventive
adj. (used of persons or artifacts) marked by independence and creativity in thought or action; "an imaginative use of material"; "the invention of the knitting frame by another ingenious English clergyman"- Lewis Mumford; "an ingenious device"; "had an inventive turn of mind"; "inventive ceramics"
casual, insouciant, nonchalant
adj. marked by blithe unconcern; "an ability to interest casual students"; "showed a casual disregard for cold weather"; "an utterly insouciant financial policy"; "an elegantly insouciant manner"; "drove his car with nonchalant abandon"; "was polite in a teasing nonchalant manner"
bold
adj. fearless and daring; "bold settlers on some foreign shore"; "a bold speech"; "a bold adventure"
daring, audacious, venturesome, venturous
adj. disposed to venture or take risks; "audacious visions of the total conquest of space"; "an audacious interpretation of two Jacobean dramas"; "the most daring of contemporary fiction writers"; "a venturesome investor"; "a venturous spirit"
impertinent, saucy, irreverent, pert
adj. characterized by a lightly pert and exuberant quality; "a certain irreverent gaiety and ease of manner"
nervy, courageous
adj. showing or requiring courage and contempt of danger; "the nervy feats of mountaineers"
pushing, aggressive, enterprising, pushful, pushy
adj. marked by aggressive ambition and energy and initiative; "an aggressive young executive"; "a pushful insurance agent"; "a pushing youth intent on getting on in the world"
alert
adj. very attentive or observant; "an alert and responsive baby is a joy"; "caught by a couple of alert cops"; "alert enough to spot the opportunity when it came"; "constantly alert and vigilant, like a sentinel on duty"
chipper, perky, jaunty
adj. having a cheerful, lively, and self-confident air; "looking chipper, like a man...diverted by his own wit"- Frances G. Patton; "life that is gay, brisk, and debonair"- H.M.Reynolds; "walked with a jaunty step"; "a jaunty optimist"
modish, stylish, in vogue, in style, a la mode, à la mode
adj. in the current fashion or style
spruce, jaunty, raffish, rakish, snappy, dapper, dashing, natty
adj. marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners; "a dapper young man"; "a jaunty red hat"
chic, smart
adj. elegant and stylish; "chic elegance"; "a smart new dress"; "a suit of voguish cut"
tidy, neat, cleanly
adj. habitually clean; "cleanly in their persons and habitations"
clean
adj. free from dirt or impurities; or having clean habits; "children with clean shining faces"; "clean white shirts"; "clean dishes"; "a spotlessly clean house"; "cats are clean animals"
tidy, in order, uncluttered, unlittered
adj. marked by good order and cleanliness in appearance or habits; "a tidy person"; "a tidy house"; "a tidy mind"
urbane, refined, polished, svelte, cultured
adj. showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience; "his polished manner"; "maintained an urbane tone in his letters"
Synonyms (95)
intelligent
adj. having the capacity for thought and reason especially to a high degree; "is there intelligent life in the universe?"; "an intelligent question"
modish, stylish, in vogue, in style, a la mode, à la mode
adj. in the current fashion or style
chichi
adj. affectedly trendy and fashionable
spruce, jaunty, raffish, rakish, snappy, dapper, dashing, natty
adj. marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners; "a dapper young man"; "a jaunty red hat"
faddish, faddy
adj. intensely fashionable for a short time
in
adj. currently fashionable; "the in thing to do"; "large shoulder pads are in"
mod, modern, up-to-date, up to date
adj. relating to a recently developed fashion or style; "their offices are in a modern skyscraper"; "tables in modernistic designs";
trendsetting, trend-setting
adj. initiating or popularizing a trend
trendy, voguish
adj. in accord with the latest fad; "trendy ideas"; "trendy clothes"; "voguish terminology"
bijou
adj. small and elegant: "bijou villas"; "can Americans be persuaded to pay out dollars for bijou cars?"
dandified, dandyish, foppish
adj. affecting extreme elegance in dress and manner
luxury, deluxe, luxe, de luxe
adj. elegant and sumptuous; "a deluxe car"; "luxe accommodations"
high-class, high-toned
adj. pretentiously elegant; "a high-toned restaurant"
exquisite, recherche
adj. lavishly elegant and refined
neat, refined, tasteful
adj. free from what is tawdry or unbecoming; "a neat style"; "a neat set of rules"; "she hated to have her neat plans upset"
swank, ritzy, swanky
adj. luxuriously elegant
simple
adj. cleverly simple; used of a solution to a problem e.g.
soigne, well-groomed, soigné
adj. polished and well-groomed; showing sophisticated elegance
chichi
adj. affectedly trendy and fashionable
swish, classy, posh
adj. elegant and fashionable; "classy clothes"; "a classy dame"; "a posh restaurant"; "a swish pastry shop on the Rue du Bac"- Julia Child
agile, nimble
adj. mentally quick; "an agile mind"; "nimble wits"
sharp, alert, quick-witted
adj. mentally responsive; "an alert mind"
apprehensive, discerning, perceptive
adj. quick to understand; "a kind and apprehensive friend"- Nathaniel Hawthorne
quick, apt, clever
adj. mentally quick and resourceful; "an apt pupil"; "you are a clever man...you reason well and your wit is bold"-Bram Stoker
brilliant, brainy, smart as a whip
adj. having or marked by unusual and impressive intelligence; "some men dislike brainy women"; "a brilliant mind"; "a brilliant solution to the problem"
prehensile, insightful
adj. having a keen intellect; "poets--those gifted strangely prehensile men"- A.T.Quiller-Couch
keen, trenchant, searching
adj. having keenness and forcefulness and penetration in thought, expression, or intellect; "searching insights"; "trenchant criticism"
thinking, reasoning, rational
adj. endowed with the capacity to reason
scintillating
adj. brilliantly clever; "scintillating wit"; "a play full of scintillating dialogue"
brash, cheeky, nervy
adj. offensively bold; "a brash newcomer disputed the age-old rules for admission to the club"; "a nervy thing to say"
self-assertive, bumptious
adj. offensively self-assertive
familiar, overfamiliar
adj. taking undue liberties; "young women disliked the overfamiliar tone he took with them"
assumptive, assuming, presumptuous
adj. excessively forward; "an assumptive person"; "on a subject like this it would be too assuming for me to decide"; "the duchess would not put up with presumptuous servants"
kempt, combed
adj. (of hair) made tidy with a comb; "with hair combed to the side"
trim, orderly, neat, well-kept, shipshape
adj. of places; characterized by order and neatness; free from disorder; "even the barn was shipshape"; "a trim little sailboat"
ruly
adj. neat and tidy; "a small ruly beard"
slicked up
adj. having been made especially tidy; "slicked up for visitors"
Antonyms (31)
stupid
adj. lacking or marked by lack of intellectual acuity
dim, dull, slow, dumb, dense, obtuse
adj. slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity; "so dense he never understands anything I say to him"; "never met anyone quite so dim"; "although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick"- Thackeray; "dumb officials make some really dumb decisions"; "he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse"; "worked with the slow students"
dopy, dopey, cloddish, doltish
adj. heavy and dull and stupid
fool, anserine, dopy, dopey, foolish, goosey, goosy, gooselike
adj. having or revealing stupidity; "ridiculous anserine behavior"; "a dopey answer"; "a dopey kid"; "some fool idea about rewriting authors' books"
untidy
adj. not neat and tidy; "careless and untidy in her personal habits"; "an untidy living room"; "untidy and casual about money"
disheveled, dishevelled, ungroomed
adj. in disarray; extremely disorderly; "her clothing was disheveled"; "powder-smeared and frowzled"; "a rumpled unmade bed"; "a bed with tousled sheets"; "his brown hair was tousled, thick, and curly"- Al Spiers
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