Synonyms of smart

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adjective

ˈsmärt 

1

as in elegant

being strikingly neat and trim in style or appearance

dressed in their smart new uniforms, the cadets proudly paraded around the grounds of the military school

Synonyms & Similar Words

• elegant
• stylish
• fashionable
• dapper
• snappy
• sharp
• natty
• careful
• formal
• chic
• spruce
• tidy
• meticulous
• immaculate
• orderly
• dressy
• clean
• modish
• fastidious
• groomed
• spiffed-up
• fussy
• in
• pristine
• a la mode
• dolled up
• spotless
• squeaky-clean
• combed
• à la mode

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• sloppy
• slovenly
• messy
• unkempt
• disheveled
• wrinkled
• untidy
• shabby
• dirty
• rumpled
• dishevelled
• sleazy
• filthy
• frowsy
• nasty
• uncombed
• frowzy
• scruffy
• unclean
• foul
• grimy
• dingy
• spotted
• stained
• grubby
• soiled
• scrubby
• unfashionable
• mussed
• inelegant
• dowdy
• scuzzy
• scroungy
• unstylish
• sullied
• smirched

2

as in stylish

being in the latest or current fashion

boutiques specializing in smart clothes for cosmopolitan women

Synonyms & Similar Words

• stylish
• fashionable
• happening
• chic
• elegant
• exclusive
• trendy
• sophisticated
• fresh
• cool
• hip
• handsome
• supercool
• modish
• graceful
• snappy
• swish
• voguish
• sharp
• swell
• a la mode
• in
• sassy
• haute
• classy
• au courant
• funky
• edgy
• haut
• spiffy
• dapper
• à la mode
• posh
• swanky
• saucy
• tasteful
• downtown
• dashing
• kicky
• rakish
• dressy
• natty
• flashy
• understated
• swank
• ritzy
• flossy
• refined
• soignée
• majestic
• spruce
• soigné
• nobby
• doggish
• gallant
• doggy
• foppish
• chichi
• dandyish
• ultracool
• ultrasophisticated
• ultrasmart
• stately
• ultrachic
• ultrahip
• dudish
• ultraposh

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• out
• outmoded
• unattractive
• unfashionable
• uncool
• dowdy
• cheesy
• tacky
• unbecoming
• trashy
• inelegant
• sloppy
• unstylish
• tasteless
• slovenly
• unchic
• messy
• untidy
• graceless
• unkempt
• styleless
• unmodish
• wrinkled
• unhandsome
• shabby
• rumpled
• disheveled
• sleazy
• dishevelled
• frowsy
• frowzy
• mussy

3

as in witty

given to or marked by mature intelligent humor

something one sees so rarely on TV: a smart sitcom

Synonyms & Similar Words

• witty
• humorous
• clever
• funny
• playful
• jocular
• facetious
• joking
• amusing
• cerebral
• entertaining
• ridiculous
• comic
• mischievous
• intellectual
• highbrow
• comical
• frivolous
• merry
• hysterical
• droll
• ludicrous
• teasing
• laughing
• jovial
• laughable
• jolly
• farcical
• riotous
• whimsical
• flippant
• antic
• uproarious
• highbrowed
• screaming
• rollicking
• flip
• mirthful
• risible
• jocose
• bantering
• waggish
• prankish
• sparkling
• jesting
• diverting
• sunny
• sidesplitting
• joshing
• scintillating
• jocund
• pert
• smart-aleck
• smart-alecky

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• stupid
• brainless
• witless
• lame
• lowbrow
• hackneyed
• corny
• serious
• humorless
• hackney
• earnest
• sober
• unfunny
• solemn
• somber
• sombre
• serious-minded
• grave
• sorry
• plaintive
• tearful
• unamusing
• woeful
• doleful
• uncomic
• lachrymose
• dolorous

4

as in cute

making light of something usually regarded as serious or sacred

just joked and made smart comments during the ceremony

Synonyms & Similar Words

• cute
• wise
• playful
• flippant
• flip
• inappropriate
• smart-ass
• smarty-pants
• facetious
• smart-assed
• pert
• mischievous
• wiseass
• smart-aleck
• smart-alecky
• casual
• rude
• sassy
• cocky
• frivolous
• fresh
• impudent
• cheeky
• impish
• saucy
• roguish
• waggish
• disrespectful
• thoughtless
• impertinent
• glib
• flighty
• breezy

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• sincere
• earnest
• serious
• sober
• solemn
• grave
• somber
• sombre

5

as in intelligent

having or showing a practical cleverness or judgment

a smart investment that has really paid off

Synonyms & Similar Words

• intelligent
• wise
• savvy
• astute
• shrewd
• clever
• sharp
• brilliant
• knowing
• hardheaded
• veteran
• experienced
• cunning
• bright
• keen
• quick
• heady
• slick
• canny
• sharp-witted
• clear-eyed
• clear-sighted
• subtle
• insightful
• wily
• perceptive
• crafty
• hard-boiled
• sly
• artful
• tricky
• sagacious
• perspicacious
• cagey
• devious
• foxy
• resourceful
• discerning
• brainy
• sage
• guileful
• ingenious
• nimble
• agile
• sapient
• discriminating
• dodgy
• discriminative
• cagy
• pawky
• alert
• apt
• percipient
• quick-witted
• calculating
• scheming
• sharp-sighted
• sharp-eyed

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• naive
• naïve
• ingenuous
• innocent
• guileless
• gullible
• unknowing
• artless
• unwise
• dumb
• stupid
• exploitable
• dense
• simple
• slow
• unperceptive
• obtuse
• unintelligent
• foolish
• dull
• silly
• dopey
• idiotic
• brainless
• thoughtless
• ignorant
• feebleminded
• brain-dead
• gullable
• moronic
• thickheaded
• weak-minded
• imbecile
• uninformed
• imbecilic
• witless
• dim-witted
• slow-witted
• dopy
• softheaded
• empty-headed
• lamebrained
• gormless
• airheaded
• lamebrain
• knuckleheaded
• lunkheaded
• half-witted
• thick-witted
• idiotical
• birdbrained

6

as in clever

having or showing quickness of mind

a smart child who will do well in school

Synonyms & Similar Words

• intelligent
• clever
• quick
• fast
• brilliant
• bright
• sharp
• exceptional
• keen
• wise
• educated
• skilled
• nimble
• brainy
• alert
• supersmart
• quick-witted
• cunning
• sharp-witted
• resourceful
• sensible
• ultrasmart
• literate
• hyperintelligent
• savvy
• ingenious
• creative
• astute
• learned
• insightful
• perceptive
• schooled
• apt
• acute
• cerebral
• knowledgeable
• sagacious
• prudent
• informed
• logical
• trained
• erudite
• rational
• judicious
• inventive
• discerning
• knowing
• reasonable
• scholarly
• sound
• shrewd
• perspicacious
• sane
• heady
• wily
• genial
• well-read
• crafty
• sapient
• highbrow
• sage
• percipient
• foxy

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• dumb
• stupid
• simple
• slow
• dense
• unintelligent
• soft
• thick
• opaque
• dopey
• obtuse
• dull
• mindless
• brainless
• dim
• vacuous
• fatuous
• doltish
• brain-dead
• senseless
• boneheaded
• witless
• weak-minded
• thickheaded
• dorky
• foolish
• dunderheaded
• pinheaded
• softheaded
• dopy
• lamebrained
• lamebrain
• silly
• simpleminded
• feebleminded
• idiotic
• unsmart
• moronic
• ignorant
• dim-witted
• slow-witted
• imbecile
• empty-headed
• imbecilic
• airheaded
• gormless
• uneducated
• knuckleheaded
• bubbleheaded
• illiterate
• unbrilliant
• uninformed
• lunkheaded
• half-witted
• chuckleheaded
• thick-witted
• birdbrained
• unthinking
• mad
• unwise
• crazy
• unintellectual
• insane
• untaught
• absurd
• nonintellectual
• fool
• zany
• unacademic
• lowbrow
• nutty
• wacky
• preposterous
• kooky
• idiotical
• daft
• cuckoo
• whacky
• lunatic
• nonsensical
• asinine
• loony
• dippy
• sappy
• harebrained
• daffy
• half-baked
• boobish
• balmy
• dotty
• screwball
• cockeyed
• looney
• crackpot
• kookie
• featherheaded
• tomfool

7

as in sophisticated

having a wide and refined knowledge of the world especially from personal experience

a novelist who got much of the material for his works by hanging out with the smart set

Synonyms & Similar Words

• sophisticated
• cosmopolitan
• polished
• worldly
• civilized
• bored
• pragmatic
• worldly-wise
• cultured
• cynical
• sober
• experienced
• realistic
• suave
• seasoned
• urbane
• cultivated
• skeptical
• pragmatical
• refined
• knowing
• practiced
• jaded
• schooled
• down-to-earth

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• naive
• unsophisticated
• naïve
• green
• innocent
• ingenuous
• inexperienced
• guileless
• raw
• untutored
• unworldly
• simple
• provincial
• rustic
• parochial
• callow
• uncivilized
• wide-eyed
• childlike
• unrefined
• idealistic
• uncultured
• impractical
• simpleminded
• rustical
• uncritical
• unknowing
• philistine

smart

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noun

1

as in tingle

a sharp unpleasant sensation usually felt in some specific part of the body

the toddler was whining over the smart from the cut

Synonyms & Similar Words

• tingle
• pain
• ache
• pang
• stitch
• sting
• prick
• shoot
• swelling
• twinge
• soreness
• sore
• headache
• hurt
• agony
• tenderness
• harm
• discomfort
• throe
• torture
• suffering
• distress
• inflammation
• injury
• misery
• detriment
• anguish
• damage
• torment
• charley horse
• sufferance
• complaint
• gripe
• toothache
• backache
• affliction
• colic
• bellyache
• stomachache
• earache

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• ease
• comfort
• easiness

2

as in sense

smarts plural the ability to learn and understand or to deal with problems

she had the smarts to start college at age 16, but perhaps not the emotional maturity

Synonyms & Similar Words

• sense
• reason
• intelligence
• intellect
• mentality
• gray matter
• talent
• brainpower
• aptitude
• intellectuality
• headpiece
• brain(s)
• insight
• intellectualism
• brilliance
• acumen
• common sense
• perspicacity
• judgement
• astuteness
• judgment
• perception
• discernment
• horse sense
• wisdom
• wit
• braininess
• highbrowism
• mother wit
• eggheadedness
• sagacity
• mind
• alertness
• apprehension
• percipience
• discriminability
• skull
• sapience
• head

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• density
• idiocy
• stupidity
• foolishness
• dumbness
• slowness
• dullness
• feeblemindedness
• dulness
• imbecility
• simpleness
• fatuity
• denseness
• doltishness
• senselessness
• dopiness
• half-wittedness

smart

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verb

as in to hurt

to feel or cause physical pain

the injection only smarted for a moment

Synonyms & Similar Words

• hurt
• ache
• pain
• swell
• throb
• tingle
• bite
• cramp
• sting
• rack
• nag
• bleed
• itch
• pinch
• burn
• suffer
• chafe
• fester
• afflict
• torture
• agonize
• anguish
• torment
• harrow
• pound
• twinge

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adverb

as in smartly

Synonyms & Similar Words

• smartly
• sharply
• orderly
• nattily
• neatly
• fashionably
• tidily
• sprucely
• fastidiously
• carefully
• modishly
• cleanly
• immaculately
• meticulously
• spotlessly
• fussily

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• sloppily
• slovenly
• slatternly
• dowdily
• chaotically
• untidily
• messily

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smart people

intellectual people

bright people

intelligent people

sensible people

clever people

a smart move

a good move

a sensible move

a thoughtful move

a clever move

a strategic move

smart phones

mobile phones

cellular phones

intelligent phones

modern phones

wireless phones

a smart girl

an intelligent girl

a brainy girl

a brilliant girl

a knowledgeable girl

a wise girl

a smart thing

a sensible thing

a good thing

a strategic thing

a right thing

a savvy thing

Examples of smart in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Adjective

Here’s a closer look at why regional banks could be the smarter choice for your banking needs. —Jaime Catmull, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2024

Each describes the other as strong, smart and determined. —Jennifer Weil, WWD, 18 Oct. 2024

Noun

Good, who matched him in smarts and formal credentials. —Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Oct. 2024

With a growth mindset, failures or setbacks aren’t indicators of too little capability or smarts. —Tracy Brower, Forbes, 6 Oct. 2024

Verb

Jordan Chiles looking to make a statement after being forced out of the all-around The other American looking to compete on all four apparatuses on Tuesday is Chiles, who will be smarting from a quirk in Olympic rules that keeps her out of the all-around finals on Thursday. —Kyle Feldscher, CNN, 30 July 2024

Russia was already smarting from the World Anti-Doping Agency’s decision in 2019 to ban the country from international sports competitions for four years. —Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 7 Aug. 2024

Adverb

Seats can be trimmed in a smart-looking gray wool blend, part of Volvo’s effort to eliminate leather use by 2030. —cleveland, 24 Sep. 2022

The stand has a sleek design made from thin but sturdy fiberglass, pieced together in a smart-looking Z-shape. —Thomas Hindle, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Apr. 2022

Phrases Containing smart

• smart alec
• smart aleck