Crossword clues for smartest
smartest
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-superlative of: smart)
Usage examples of "smartest".
I taught for forty-eight years and she had to be one of the smartest kids I ever had.
The decision we reached around that time, to commit ourselves to giving the associates more equitable treatment in the company, was without a doubt the single smartest move we ever made at Wal-Mart.
Real ones, attested to by the smartest data-retrieval system anyone had ever encountered.
In some ways she was the smartest person Johanna had ever known, though that conclusion came slowly.
Laughter, encouragement, suggestions of who was the smartest man in the house.
Kate looked around the room at the deputies and firemen, the townspeople who had come to mean so much to her, and she knew that coming back to Gilpin County had been the smartest move of her life.
It is of interest that the wisest and smartest of his futique heroes were women.
World Snow Belt Americans were the smartest primates on the planet from 1620-1946.
Of the three, she was the smartest, all she had to do was a little work.
Sometimes the smartest ones get to the top of the corporate ladder or the highest rungs of elected office.
I was putting in the hours who needed the hassle but he kept working on me telling me I was the smartest D.
Marilena said, and she felt as she had in elementary school when kids ganged up and falsely accused her, jealous of the smartest kid in the class.
I mean, you would think people would want the smartest leader they could find, but instead, they seem perfectly content to elect total MORONS.
In fact, the smartest fellows on Chamberlain Three in the fall of 1966 were probably the ones who transferred before flunking out became a real possibility.
You were never the smartest guy in the world, Sully-John, but you were a perceptive son of a bitch.