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smart
Synonyms and Antonyms of smart
- the toddler was whining over the smart from the cut
- she had the smarts to start college at age 16, but perhaps not the emotional maturity
smart
Synonyms and Antonyms of smart
smart
Synonyms and Antonyms of smart
- dressed in their smart new uniforms, the cadets proudly paraded around the grounds of the military school
dolled up, dressy, elegant, formal, spiffed-up
à la mode (also a la mode), chic, fashionable, in, modish, stylish
disheveled (or dishevelled), frowsy (or frowzy), sloppy, slovenly, unkempt
- boutiques specializing in smart clothes for cosmopolitan women
dapper, dashing, dressy, kicky, natty, rakish, sassy, saucy, spiffy, spruce
chichi, classy, flossy, haute (also haut), nobby, posh, ritzy, soigné (or soignée), swank (or swanky)
elegant, graceful, handsome, majestic, refined, sophisticated, stately, tasteful, understated
doggish, doggy, flashy, gallant
ultrachic, ultracool, ultrahip, ultraposh, ultrasmart, ultrasophisticated
cheesy, tacky, unattractive, unbecoming
graceless, inelegant, tasteless, trashy, unhandsome
frowsy (or frowzy), sloppy, slovenly, unkempt, untidy
disheveled (or dishevelled), messy, mussy, rumpled, wrinkled
- something one sees so rarely on TV: a smart sitcom
cerebral, highbrow, highbrowed, intellectual
bantering, frivolous, jesting, joking, joshing, teasing
antic, comic, comical, droll, farcical, funny, hysterical, laughable, ludicrous, ridiculous, riotous, risible, rollicking, screaming, sidesplitting, uproarious
amusing, diverting, entertaining
mischievous, playful, prankish
jocose, jocund, jolly, jovial, laughing, merry, mirthful, sunny
- just joked and made smart comments during the ceremony
- a smart investment that has really paid off
artful, cagey (also cagy), crafty, cunning, devious, dodgy [chiefly British], foxy, guileful, pawky [chiefly British], slick, sly, subtle, tricky, wily
discerning, insightful, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, sagacious, sage, sapient, wise
discriminating, discriminative
agile, alert, brainy, bright, brilliant, clever, intelligent, keen, nimble, quick, quick-witted, sharp-eyed, sharp-sighted
artless, guileless, ingenuous, innocent, naive (or naïve)
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
foolish, idiotic (also idiotical), imbecile (or imbecilic), moronic, silly, thoughtless, witless
- a smart child who will do well in school
acute, astute, discerning, heady, insightful, knowing, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, sagacious, sapient, savvy, wise
cerebral, erudite, genial, highbrow, knowledgeable, learned, literate, scholarly, well-read
educated, informed, schooled, skilled, trained
creative, inventive, judicious, prudent, sage, sane, sapient, sensible, sound, wise
boobish, foolish, half-baked, idiotic (also idiotical), imbecile (or imbecilic), moronic, silly
ignorant, illiterate, lowbrow, nonintellectual, unacademic, uneducated, uninformed, unintellectual, untaught, unthinking
absurd, asinine, balmy, cockeyed, crackpot, crazy, cuckoo, daffy, daft, dippy, dotty, featherheaded, fool, half-baked, harebrained, insane, kooky (also kookie), loony (also looney), lunatic, mad, nonsensical, nutty, preposterous, sappy, screwball, tomfool, unwise, wacky (also whacky), zany
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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