Swart vs Smart - What's the difference?
swart | smart |
Of a dark hue; moderately black; swarthy; tawny.
* 1400s:' , ''Hymns to the Virgin'' - Men schalle then sone se / Att mydday hytt shalle ' swarte be
* 1590', , ''The Faerie Queene'', Book 2 - A nation strange, with visage ' swart
* , III-i - Lame, foolish, crooked, swart , prodigious,
* 1819 , , Otho the Great , Act II, Scene I, verses 91-92
* 1836', , ''Old Ticonderoga'' - The merry soldiers footing it with the ' swart savage maids
Black.
(obsolete) Gloomy; malignant.
* 1906', , ''Time and the Gods'' - Suddenly the ' swart figure of Time stood up before the gods, with both hands dripping with blood and a red sword dangling idly from his fingers, and said: “Sardathrion is gone! I have overthrown it!”
To make swart or tawny; as, to swart a living part; blacken; tan.
* 1646', , ''Pseudodoxia Epidemica'' - the heate of the Sun, whose fervor may ' swarte a living part, and even black a dead or dissolving flesh,
* 1587: Raphael Holinshed, Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland [http://www.archive.org/stream/holinshedschroni01holi#page/356/mode/1up]
To hurt or sting.
* 1897 , (Bram Stoker), (Dracula) Chapter 21
To cause a smart or sting in.
* T. Adams
To feel a pungent pain of mind; to feel sharp pain or grief; to suffer; to feel the sting of evil.
* Alexander Pope
* Bible, Proverbs xi. 15
Causing sharp pain; stinging.
* Shakespeare
Sharp; keen; poignant.
Exhibiting social ability or cleverness.
* 1811 , Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility , chapter 19
Exhibiting intellectual knowledge, such as that found in books.
(often, in combination) Equipped with intelligent behaviour.
Good-looking.
Cleverly shrewd and humorous in a way that may be rude and disrespectful.
* Young
* Addison
Sudden and intense.
* Clarendon
* 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:
(US, Southern, dated) Intense in feeling; painful. Used usually with the adverb intensifier right .
(archaic) Efficient; vigorous; brilliant.
* Dryden
(archaic) Pretentious; showy; spruce.
(archaic) Brisk; fresh.
A sharp, quick, lively pain; a sting.
Mental pain or suffering; grief; affliction.
* Milton
* Spenser
Smart-money.
(slang, dated) A dandy; one who is smart in dress; one who is brisk, vivacious, or clever.
In transitive terms the difference between swart and smart
is that swart is to make swart or tawny; as, to swart a living part; blacken; tan while smart is to cause a smart or sting in.As an initialism SMART is
specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, Tangible, a mnemonic for goal-setting.As a proper noun Smart is
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English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) swart, from (etyl) . Compare (l), (l).Adjective
(er)- I'll choose a gaoler, whose swart monstrous face
- Shall be a hell to look upon […]
- (Milton)
Derived terms
* swarten * Swart star, (Rare): the Dog Star -- so called from its appearing during the hot weather of summer, which makes swart the countenance. * swarthy (< swarty)Etymology 2
From (etyl) swarten, from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)Etymology 3
Variant of sward.Noun
(-)- Howbeit where the rocks and quarrie grounds are, I take the swart of the earth to be so thin, that no tree of anie greatnesse, other than shrubs and bushes, is able to grow or prosper long therein for want of sufficient moisture wherewith to feed them with fresh humour, or at the leastwise of mould...
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English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) smerten, from (etyl) .Verb
- After being hit with a pitch, the batter exclaimed "Ouch, my arm smarts !"
- He moved convulsively, and as he did so, said, "I'll be quiet, Doctor. Tell them to take off the strait waistcoat. I have had a terrible dream, and it has left me so weak that I cannot move. What's wrong with my face? It feels all swollen, and it smarts dreadfully."
- A goad that smarts the flesh.
- No creature smarts so little as a fool.
- He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) smart, smarte, smerte, from (etyl) .Adjective
(er)- How smart a lash that speech doth give my conscience.
- a smart pain
- 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.
- smart''' bomb'', '''''smart car
- smart'''card'', '''''smart phone
- a smart outfit
- He became tired of his daughter's sarcasm and smart remarks''.
- Who, for the poor renown of being smart / Would leave a sting within a brother's heart?
- a sentence or two, which I thought very smart
- smart skirmishes, in which many fell
- 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.
- He raised his voice, and it hurt her feelings right smart .
- That cast on his leg chaffs him right smart .
- The stars shine smarter .
- a smart gown
- a smart breeze
Synonyms
* (exhibiting social ability) bright, capable, sophisticated, witty * (exhibiting intellectual knowledge) cultivated, educated, learned, see also * (good-looking) attractive, chic, stylish, handsome * sillyAntonyms
* (exhibiting social ability) backward, banal, boorish, dull, inept * (exhibiting intellectual knowledge) ignorant, uncultivated, simple * (good-looking) garish, , tackyDerived terms
* smart aleck * smart as a whip * smart casual * smart offEtymology 3
From (etyl) smerte, from . More above.Noun
(en noun)- To stand 'twixt us and our deserved smart .
- Counsel mitigates the greatest smart .
- (Fielding)
