Crossword clues for smarter
smarter
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Smart \Smart\, a. [Compar. Smarter; superl. Smartest.] [OE. smerte. See Smart, v. i.]
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Causing a smart; pungent; pricking; as, a smart stroke or taste.
How smart lash that speech doth give my conscience.
--Shak. Keen; severe; poignant; as, smart pain.
Vigorous; sharp; severe. ``Smart skirmishes, in which many fell.''
--Clarendon.Accomplishing, or able to accomplish, results quickly; active; sharp; clever. [Colloq.]
Efficient; vigorous; brilliant. ``The stars shine smarter.''
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Marked by acuteness or shrewdness; quick in suggestion or reply; vivacious; witty; as, a smart reply; a smart saying.
Who, for the poor renown of being smart Would leave a sting within a brother's heart?
--Young.A sentence or two, . . . which I thought very smart.
--Addison. Pretentious; showy; spruce; as, a smart gown.
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Brisk; fresh; as, a smart breeze. Smart money.
Money paid by a person to buy himself off from some unpleasant engagement or some painful situation.
(Mil.) Money allowed to soldiers or sailors, in the English service, for wounds and injures received; also, a sum paid by a recruit, previous to being sworn in, to procure his release from service.
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(Law) Vindictive or exemplary damages; damages beyond a full compensation for the actual injury done.
--Burrill.
--Greenleaf.Smart ticket, a certificate given to wounded seamen, entitling them to smart money. [Eng.]
--Brande & C.Syn: Pungent; poignant; sharp; tart; acute; quick; lively; brisk; witty; clever; keen; dashy; showy.
Usage: Smart, Clever. Smart has been much used in New England to describe a person who is intelligent, vigorous, and active; as, a smart young fellow; a smart workman, etc., conciding very nearly with the English sense of clever. The nearest approach to this in England is in such expressions as, he was smart (pungent or witty) in his reply, etc.; but smart and smartness, when applied to persons, more commonly refer to dress; as, a smart appearance; a smart gown, etc.
Wiktionary
a. (en-comparative of: smart)
Usage examples of "smarter".
A part of me, probably the smarter part, groaned at my course of action and started cataloguing the number of federal and state criminal codes I was breaking into tiny pieces by taking a member of the Federal Bureau of Investigation hostage and threatening to kill him and attempting to take hostage three more.
No, the dim-witted, stars-in-her-eyes Tina had been a much safer, much smarter move.
smarter, much smarter to dump the guy in the river so the cops waste time and resources looking for a dead man.
Harper left no doubt who gave the orders with this bunch, and who was meaner, or smarter, or whatever it took to get that obedience out of men both bigger and stronger than Harper was.
They were bigger than Harper, stronger than Harper, but neither one of them was smarter, neither of them was more in possession of the ambient.
Science Center are beginning to wonder if they are smarter than we are.
Crew only ever get the best, that means their fucking coffee machine is smarter and more attractive than you.
He seemed to be having an easier time of it than Micah or me, maybe his deputy was smarter, or just less prejudiced.
What did Rooter think, that if human women were smarter, they would kill Pipo?
More like when her Papa Fred told her she was smarter than anybody else than when her mother did.
He said Miss Kinnian tolld him I was her bestist pupil in the Beekman School for retarted adults and I tryed the hardist becaus I reely wantd to lern I wantid it more even then pepul who are smarter even then me.
He explaned how it took a long time with Algernon before he got 3 times smarter then he was before.
Strauss came over and put his hand on my sholder and said Charlie you dont know it yet but your getting smarter all the time.
The machine will make him smarter than Hymie who lives two doors away and knows how to read and write and is in the Boy Scouts.
Seeing them all running back and forth in the lobby, chasing a white mouse smarter than many of them, was the funniest thing that had happened in a long time.