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Synonyms & Antonyms of smarty-pants
(Entry 1 of 2)
making light of something usually regarded as serious or sacred
- your smarty-pants comments aren't helping matters any
Synonyms for smarty-pants
- cute,
- facetious,
- flip,
- flippant,
- pert,
- smart,
- smart-aleck,
- smart-alecky,
- smart-ass,
- smart-assed,
- wise,
- wiseass
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smarty-pants
plural nounSynonyms of smarty-pants (Entry 2 of 2)
a person who likes to show off in a clever but annoying way
- I don't need to hear from some smarty-pants second-guesser that the theme for the party is all wrong
Synonyms for smarty-pants
- smart aleck
- (also smart alec),
- smarty
- (or smartie),
- wise guy,
- wiseacre,
- wiseass,
- wisenheimer
- (also weisenheimer)
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“Smarty-pants.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/smarty-pants. Accessed 4 Aug. 2021.
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The first known use of smarty-pants was in 1932
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