Adjective

(er)

Causing sharp pain; stinging.

* Shakespeare

How smart a lash that speech doth give my conscience.

Sharp; keen; poignant.

a smart pain

Exhibiting social ability or cleverness.

* 1811 , Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility , chapter 19

I always preferred the church, and I still do. But that was not smart' enough for my family. They recommended the army. That was a great deal too ' smart for me.

Exhibiting intellectual knowledge, such as that found in books.

(often, in combination) Equipped with intelligent behaviour.

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Good-looking.

a smart outfit

Cleverly shrewd and humorous in a way that may be rude and disrespectful.

He became tired of his daughter's sarcasm and smart remarks''.

* Young

Who, for the poor renown of being smart / Would leave a sting within a brother's heart?

* Addison

a sentence or two, which I thought very smart

Sudden and intense.

* Clarendon

smart skirmishes, in which many fell

* 1860 July 9, Henry David Thoreau, journal entry, from Thoreau's bird-lore'', Francis H. Allen (editor), Houghton Mifflin (Boston, 1910), ''Thoreau on Birds: notes on New England birds from the Journals of Henry David Thoreau , Beacon Press, (Boston, 1993), page 239:

There is a smart shower at 5 P.M., and in the midst of it a hummingbird is busy about the flowers in the garden, unmindful of it, though you would think that each big drop that struck him would be a serious accident.

(US, Southern, dated) Intense in feeling; painful. Used usually with the adverb intensifier right .

He raised his voice, and it hurt her feelings right smart .

That cast on his leg chaffs him right smart .

(archaic) Efficient; vigorous; brilliant.

* Dryden

The stars shine smarter .

(archaic) Pretentious; showy; spruce.

a smart gown

(archaic) Brisk; fresh.

a smart breeze

Adjective

(en-adj)

True, genuine, not merely nominal or apparent.

* 2007 , Jim Kokoris, The Rich Part of Life: A Novel (ISBN 1429976438), page 179:

[T]he real reason he didn't come was because he was scared of flying[.]

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Genuine, not artificial, counterfeit, or fake.

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Genuine, unfeigned, sincere.

* Milton:

Whose perfection far excelled / Hers in all real dignity.

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Actually being, existing, or occurring; not fictitious or imaginary.

a description of real life

* Milton:

I waked, and found / Before mine eyes all real , as the dream / Had lively shadowed.

That has objective, physical existence.

(economics) Having been adjusted to remove the effects of inflation; measured in purchasing power .

(economics) Relating to the result of the actions of rational agents; relating to neoclassical economic models as opposed to Keynesian models.

(mathematics, of a number) Being either a rational number, or the limit of a convergent infinite sequence of rational numbers: being one of a set of numbers with a one-to-one correspondence to the points on a line.

(legal) Relating to immovable tangible property.

* Francis Bacon

Many are perfect in men's humours that are not greatly capable of the real part of business.

Absolute, complete, utter.

(slang)