SMARTNESS Synonyms: 80 Similar and Opposite Words

smartness

noun

Definition of smartness

as in elegance

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Recent Examples of smartness Balancing out work, making art that feels authentic, while still having a smartness about commercializing it and finding ways to commercialize it positively. — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 May 2026 Engendered by the ubiquity of stable and robust WiFi and the incredible power of the smartphone’s system-on-a-chip design, the smart everything era demonstrates the full transfer of the smartness imaginary. — Literary Hub, 2 Apr. 2026 The Pixel Watch blends style and smartness in a way most wearables miss. — Juhi Wadia, PC Magazine, 12 Sep. 2025

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Noun

Yet Lee shows that the iron sense of control with which Brookner approached her own legacy runs through her fiction, too, creating the austere elegance that characterizes her prose.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 2 Nov. 2026
Certainly not Polo Ralph Lauren, whose new Polo Blaze collection brings the elegance of the stables to city streets.

— Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 1 Nov. 2026

Definition of elegance

Noun

Author Yuval Noah Harari has been pointing out the difference between consciousness and intelligence.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2026
Floris was a former top intelligence analyst in charge at the bureau's Washington Field Office, while Benavides was the former deputy assistant director at the FBI's Counterintelligence Division.

— Sarah N. Lynch, CBS News, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of intelligence

Noun

Brass was fired from the project and nixed as an editor over creative clashes with Guccione, who wanted to amp up the raunchy scenes, Penthouse-style.

— Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2026
After, grab a cocktail at the historic Colony Hotel, a sprawling oceanfront resort with a nice tavern-style bar downstairs.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Nov. 2026

Definition of style

Noun

Reducing Gulliver’s Travels to only a topsy-turvy tale of humans both tiny and massive is to ignore the savage intellect that penned its words.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2026
Caught in that sensual music all neglect Monuments of unageing intellect.

— Frannie Comstock, Encyclopedia Britannica, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of intellect

Noun

These perfectly girly-sporty sneakers have a substantial fan club who trust them for comfort and stylishness.

— Annie Blackman, InStyle, 14 Sep. 2026
Even when some of the tricks become apparent, each new repetition somehow delivers more than the last, though the weightless, old-school video game aesthetic of the alien monster design sticks out even more amid the stylishness of the world captured in-camera.

— Guy Lodge, Variety, 22 May 2026

Definition of stylishness

Noun

Overlapping labels include allotment chic, young fogey and gardencore, all drawing on traditional countryside style, with figures like Monty Don serving as inspiration.

— Ashley Lynch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Nov. 2026
This week, the Cheesecake Factory and dictator chic made surprising appearances in our group chats, thanks to a political sideshow-slash-culture-battle kicked off by a joke made by former president Barack Obama.

— Jura Koncius, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of chic

Noun

This is a deeply flawed team that is capable of flashes of brilliance against some opponents.

— Ian Miller OutKick, FOXNews.com, 3 Nov. 2026
The fact that this ‘00s nostalgia piece was made via a very 2020s model of filmmaking is just further evidence of Udea’s casual formal brilliance.

— Katie Rife, IndieWire, 2 Nov. 2026

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