Synonyms of smart

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adjective

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as in elegant

being strikingly neat and trim in style or appearance

dressed in their smart new uniforms, the cadets proudly paraded around the grounds of the military school

Synonyms & Similar Words

• elegant
• stylish
• fashionable
• dapper
• snappy
• sharp
• natty
• careful
• formal
• chic
• spruce
• tidy
• meticulous
• immaculate
• orderly
• dressy
• clean
• modish
• fastidious
• groomed
• spiffed-up
• fussy
• in
• pristine
• a la mode
• dolled up
• spotless
• squeaky-clean
• combed
• à la mode

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• sloppy
• slovenly
• messy
• unkempt
• disheveled
• wrinkled
• untidy
• shabby
• dirty
• rumpled
• dishevelled
• sleazy
• filthy
• frowsy
• nasty
• uncombed
• frowzy
• scruffy
• unclean
• foul
• grimy
• dingy
• spotted
• stained
• grubby
• soiled
• scrubby
• unfashionable
• mussed
• inelegant
• dowdy
• scuzzy
• scroungy
• unstylish
• sullied
• smirched

2

as in stylish

being in the latest or current fashion

boutiques specializing in smart clothes for cosmopolitan women

Synonyms & Similar Words

• stylish
• fashionable
• happening
• chic
• elegant
• exclusive
• trendy
• sophisticated
• fresh
• cool
• hip
• handsome
• supercool
• modish
• graceful
• snappy
• swish
• voguish
• sharp
• swell
• a la mode
• in
• sassy
• haute
• classy
• au courant
• funky
• edgy
• haut
• spiffy
• dapper
• à la mode
• posh
• swanky
• saucy
• tasteful
• downtown
• dashing
• kicky
• rakish
• dressy
• natty
• flashy
• understated
• swank
• ritzy
• flossy
• refined
• soignée
• majestic
• spruce
• soigné
• nobby
• doggish
• gallant
• doggy
• foppish
• chichi
• dandyish
• ultracool
• ultrasophisticated
• ultrasmart
• stately
• ultrachic
• ultrahip
• dudish
• ultraposh

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• out
• outmoded
• unattractive
• unfashionable
• uncool
• dowdy
• cheesy
• tacky
• unbecoming
• trashy
• inelegant
• sloppy
• unstylish
• tasteless
• slovenly
• unchic
• messy
• untidy
• graceless
• unkempt
• styleless
• unmodish
• wrinkled
• unhandsome
• shabby
• rumpled
• disheveled
• sleazy
• dishevelled
• frowsy
• frowzy
• mussy

3

as in witty

given to or marked by mature intelligent humor

something one sees so rarely on TV: a smart sitcom

Synonyms & Similar Words

• witty
• humorous
• clever
• funny
• playful
• jocular
• facetious
• joking
• amusing
• cerebral
• entertaining
• ridiculous
• comic
• mischievous
• intellectual
• highbrow
• comical
• frivolous
• merry
• hysterical
• droll
• ludicrous
• teasing
• laughing
• jovial
• laughable
• jolly
• farcical
• riotous
• whimsical
• flippant
• antic
• uproarious
• highbrowed
• screaming
• rollicking
• flip
• mirthful
• risible
• jocose
• bantering
• waggish
• prankish
• sparkling
• jesting
• diverting
• sunny
• sidesplitting
• joshing
• scintillating
• jocund
• pert
• smart-aleck
• smart-alecky

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• stupid
• brainless
• witless
• lame
• lowbrow
• hackneyed
• corny
• serious
• humorless
• hackney
• earnest
• sober
• unfunny
• solemn
• somber
• sombre
• serious-minded
• grave
• sorry
• plaintive
• tearful
• unamusing
• woeful
• doleful
• uncomic
• lachrymose
• dolorous

4

as in cute

making light of something usually regarded as serious or sacred

just joked and made smart comments during the ceremony

Synonyms & Similar Words

• cute
• wise
• playful
• flippant
• flip
• inappropriate
• smart-ass
• smarty-pants
• facetious
• smart-assed
• pert
• mischievous
• wiseass
• smart-aleck
• smart-alecky
• casual
• rude
• sassy
• cocky
• frivolous
• fresh
• impudent
• cheeky
• impish
• saucy
• roguish
• waggish
• disrespectful
• thoughtless
• impertinent
• glib
• flighty
• breezy

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• sincere
• earnest
• serious
• sober
• solemn
• grave
• somber
• sombre

5

as in intelligent

having or showing a practical cleverness or judgment

a smart investment that has really paid off

Synonyms & Similar Words

• intelligent
• wise
• savvy
• astute
• shrewd
• clever
• sharp
• brilliant
• knowing
• hardheaded
• veteran
• experienced
• cunning
• bright
• keen
• quick
• heady
• slick
• canny
• sharp-witted
• clear-eyed
• clear-sighted
• subtle
• insightful
• wily
• perceptive
• crafty
• hard-boiled
• sly
• artful
• tricky
• sagacious
• perspicacious
• cagey
• devious
• foxy
• resourceful
• discerning
• brainy
• sage
• guileful
• ingenious
• nimble
• agile
• sapient
• discriminating
• dodgy
• discriminative
• cagy
• pawky
• alert
• apt
• percipient
• quick-witted
• calculating
• scheming
• sharp-sighted
• sharp-eyed

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• naive
• naïve
• ingenuous
• innocent
• guileless
• gullible
• unknowing
• artless
• unwise
• dumb
• stupid
• exploitable
• dense
• simple
• slow
• unperceptive
• obtuse
• unintelligent
• foolish
• dull
• silly
• dopey
• idiotic
• brainless
• thoughtless
• ignorant
• feebleminded
• brain-dead
• gullable
• moronic
• thickheaded
• weak-minded
• imbecile
• uninformed
• imbecilic
• witless
• dim-witted
• slow-witted
• dopy
• softheaded
• empty-headed
• lamebrained
• gormless
• airheaded
• lamebrain
• knuckleheaded
• lunkheaded
• half-witted
• thick-witted
• idiotical
• birdbrained

6

as in clever

having or showing quickness of mind

a smart child who will do well in school

Synonyms & Similar Words

• intelligent
• clever
• quick
• fast
• brilliant
• bright
• sharp
• exceptional
• keen
• wise
• educated
• skilled
• nimble
• brainy
• alert
• supersmart
• quick-witted
• cunning
• sharp-witted
• resourceful
• sensible
• ultrasmart
• literate
• hyperintelligent
• savvy
• ingenious
• creative
• astute
• learned
• insightful
• perceptive
• schooled
• apt
• acute
• cerebral
• knowledgeable
• sagacious
• prudent
• informed
• logical
• trained
• erudite
• rational
• judicious
• inventive
• discerning
• knowing
• reasonable
• scholarly
• sound
• shrewd
• perspicacious
• sane
• heady
• wily
• genial
• well-read
• crafty
• sapient
• highbrow
• sage
• percipient
• foxy

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• dumb
• stupid
• simple
• slow
• dense
• unintelligent
• soft
• thick
• opaque
• dopey
• obtuse
• dull
• mindless
• brainless
• dim
• vacuous
• fatuous
• doltish
• brain-dead
• senseless
• boneheaded
• witless
• weak-minded
• thickheaded
• dorky
• foolish
• dunderheaded
• pinheaded
• softheaded
• dopy
• lamebrained
• lamebrain
• silly
• simpleminded
• feebleminded
• idiotic
• unsmart
• moronic
• ignorant
• dim-witted
• slow-witted
• imbecile
• empty-headed
• imbecilic
• airheaded
• gormless
• uneducated
• knuckleheaded
• bubbleheaded
• illiterate
• unbrilliant
• uninformed
• lunkheaded
• half-witted
• chuckleheaded
• thick-witted
• birdbrained
• unthinking
• mad
• unwise
• crazy
• unintellectual
• insane
• untaught
• absurd
• nonintellectual
• fool
• zany
• unacademic
• lowbrow
• nutty
• wacky
• preposterous
• kooky
• idiotical
• daft
• cuckoo
• whacky
• lunatic
• nonsensical
• asinine
• loony
• dippy
• sappy
• harebrained
• daffy
• half-baked
• boobish
• balmy
• dotty
• screwball
• cockeyed
• looney
• crackpot
• kookie
• featherheaded
• tomfool

7

as in sophisticated

having a wide and refined knowledge of the world especially from personal experience

a novelist who got much of the material for his works by hanging out with the smart set

Synonyms & Similar Words

• sophisticated
• cosmopolitan
• polished
• worldly
• civilized
• bored
• pragmatic
• worldly-wise
• cultured
• cynical
• sober
• experienced
• realistic
• suave
• seasoned
• urbane
• cultivated
• skeptical
• pragmatical
• refined
• knowing
• practiced
• jaded
• schooled
• down-to-earth

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• naive
• unsophisticated
• naïve
• green
• innocent
• ingenuous
• inexperienced
• guileless
• raw
• untutored
• unworldly
• simple
• provincial
• rustic
• parochial
• callow
• uncivilized
• wide-eyed
• childlike
• unrefined
• idealistic
• uncultured
• impractical
• simpleminded
• rustical
• uncritical
• unknowing
• philistine

smart

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noun

1

as in tingle

a sharp unpleasant sensation usually felt in some specific part of the body

the toddler was whining over the smart from the cut

Synonyms & Similar Words

• tingle
• pain
• ache
• pang
• stitch
• sting
• prick
• shoot
• swelling
• twinge
• soreness
• sore
• headache
• hurt
• agony
• tenderness
• harm
• discomfort
• throe
• torture
• suffering
• distress
• inflammation
• injury
• misery
• detriment
• anguish
• damage
• torment
• charley horse
• sufferance
• complaint
• gripe
• toothache
• backache
• affliction
• colic
• bellyache
• stomachache
• earache

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• ease
• comfort
• easiness

2

as in sense

smarts plural the ability to learn and understand or to deal with problems

she had the smarts to start college at age 16, but perhaps not the emotional maturity

Synonyms & Similar Words

• sense
• reason
• intelligence
• intellect
• mentality
• gray matter
• talent
• brainpower
• aptitude
• intellectuality
• headpiece
• brain(s)
• insight
• intellectualism
• brilliance
• acumen
• common sense
• perspicacity
• judgement
• astuteness
• judgment
• perception
• discernment
• horse sense
• wisdom
• wit
• braininess
• highbrowism
• mother wit
• eggheadedness
• sagacity
• mind
• alertness
• apprehension
• percipience
• discriminability
• skull
• sapience
• head

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• density
• idiocy
• stupidity
• foolishness
• dumbness
• slowness
• dullness
• feeblemindedness
• dulness
• imbecility
• simpleness
• fatuity
• denseness
• doltishness
• senselessness
• dopiness
• half-wittedness

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verb

as in to hurt

to feel or cause physical pain

the injection only smarted for a moment

Synonyms & Similar Words

• hurt
• ache
• pain
• swell
• throb
• tingle
• bite
• cramp
• sting
• rack
• nag
• bleed
• itch
• pinch
• burn
• suffer
• chafe
• fester
• afflict
• torture
• agonize
• anguish
• torment
• harrow
• pound
• twinge

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adverb

as in smartly

Synonyms & Similar Words

• smartly
• sharply
• orderly
• nattily
• neatly
• fashionably
• tidily
• sprucely
• fastidiously
• carefully
• modishly
• cleanly
• immaculately
• meticulously
• spotlessly
• fussily

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• sloppily
• slovenly
• slatternly
• dowdily
• chaotically
• untidily
• messily

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smart people

intellectual people

bright people

intelligent people

sensible people

clever people

a smart move

a good move

a sensible move

a thoughtful move

a clever move

a strategic move

smart phones

mobile phones

cellular phones

intelligent phones

modern phones

wireless phones

a smart girl

an intelligent girl

a brainy girl

a brilliant girl

a knowledgeable girl

a wise girl

a smart thing

a sensible thing

a good thing

a strategic thing

a right thing

a savvy thing

Phrases Containing smart

• smart alec
• smart aleck