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(Entry 1 of 4)
- dressed in their smart new uniforms, the cadets proudly paraded around the grounds of the military school
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- disheveled
- (or dishevelled),
- frowsy
- (or frowzy),
- sloppy,
- slovenly,
- unkempt
- boutiques specializing in smart clothes for cosmopolitan women
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- disheveled
- (or dishevelled),
- messy,
- mussy,
- rumpled,
- wrinkled
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- something one sees so rarely on TV: a smart sitcom
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- just joked and made smart comments during the ceremony
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- a smart investment that has really paid off
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- exploitable,
- gullible
- (also gullable)
- airheaded,
- birdbrained,
- brain-dead,
- brainless,
- dim-witted,
- dopey
- (also dopy),
- dumb,
- empty-headed,
- feebleminded,
- gormless
- [chiefly British],
- half-witted,
- knuckleheaded,
- lamebrain
- (or lamebrained),
- lunkheaded,
- simple,
- slow,
- slow-witted,
- softheaded,
- stupid,
- thickheaded,
- thick-witted,
- unintelligent,
- weak-minded
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- a smart child who will do well in school
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- airheaded,
- birdbrained,
- boneheaded,
- brain-dead,
- brainless,
- bubbleheaded,
- chuckleheaded,
- dense,
- dim,
- dim-witted,
- doltish,
- dopey
- (also dopy),
- dorky
- [slang],
- dull,
- dumb,
- dunderheaded,
- empty-headed,
- fatuous,
- gormless
- [chiefly British],
- half-witted,
- knuckleheaded,
- lamebrain
- (or lamebrained),
- lunkheaded,
- mindless,
- obtuse,
- opaque,
- pinheaded,
- senseless,
- simple,
- slow,
- slow-witted,
- soft,
- softheaded,
- stupid,
- thick,
- thickheaded,
- thick-witted,
- unbrilliant,
- unintelligent,
- unsmart,
- vacuous,
- weak-minded,
- witless
- a novelist who got much of the material for his works by hanging out with the smart set
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nounSynonyms & Antonyms of smart (Entry 2 of 4)
- the toddler was whining over the smart from the cut
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- she had the smarts to start college at age 16, but perhaps not the emotional maturity
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smart
verbSynonyms of smart (Entry 3 of 4)
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adverbSynonyms & Antonyms of smart (Entry 4 of 4)
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