Smart: Definition and part of speech

Smart

  1. v. i. Brisk; fresh; as, a smart breeze.
  2. v. i. To feel a lively, pungent local pain; — said of some part of the body as the seat of irritation; as, my finger smarts; these wounds smart.
  3. v. i. To feel a pungent pain of mind; to feel sharp pain or grief; to suffer; to feel the sting of evil.
  4. v. t. To cause a smart in.
  5. v. i. Quick, pungent, lively pain; a pricking local pain, as the pain from puncture by nettles.
  6. v. i. Severe, pungent pain of mind; pungent grief; as, the smart of affliction.
  7. v. i. A fellow who affects smartness, briskness, and vivacity; a dandy.
  8. v. i. Smart money (see below).
  9. v. i. Causing a smart; pungent; pricking; as, a smart stroke or taste.
  10. v. i. Keen; severe; poignant; as, smart pain.
  11. 1v. i. 1 Brisk; fresh; as, a smart breeze.
  12. 1v. i. 1 To feel a lively, pungent local pain; — said of some part of the body as the seat of irritation; as, my finger smarts; these wounds smart.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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