Hypertext Webster Gateway: "smartest"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Smart \Smart\, a. [Compar. {Smarter}; superl. {Smartest}.] [OE.
smerte. See {Smart}, v. i.]
1. Causing a smart; pungent; pricking; as, a smart stroke or
taste.

How smart lash that speech doth give my conscience.
--Shak.

2. Keen; severe; poignant; as, smart pain.

3. Vigorous; sharp; severe. ``Smart skirmishes, in which many
fell.'' --Clarendon.

4. Accomplishing, or able to accomplish, results quickly;
active; sharp; clever. [Colloq.]

5. Efficient; vigorous; brilliant. ``The stars shine
smarter.'' --Dryden.

6. 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.

7. Pretentious; showy; spruce; as, a smart gown.


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