smart

/smɑːt/ adjective

Definition

INTELLIGENT › intelligent: Rachel's one of the smartest kids in the class.

TIDY › If you look smart or your clothes are smart, you look clean and tidy: a smart, blue suit I need to look a bit smarter for my interview.

FASHIONABLE › fashionable and expensive: a smart, new restaurant smart riverside apartments

MACHINE/WEAPON › A smart machine, weapon, etc uses computers to make it work: smart bombs

smartly adverb

(Definition of smart adjective from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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