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Antonyms for smarts

Grammar : Noun
Spell : smahrt
Phonetic Transcription : smɑrt

Definition of smarts

Origin :
  • Old English smeortan "be painful," from Proto-Germanic *smarta- (cf. Middle Dutch smerten, Dutch smarten, Old High German smerzan, German schmerzen "to pain," originally "to bite"), from PIE *smerd- "pain," an extension of the root *mer- (2) "to rub; to harm" (cf. Greek smerdnos "terrible, dreadful," Sanskrit mardayati "grinds, rubs, crushes," Latin mordere "to bite"). Related: Smarted; smarting.
  • noun intelligence
Example sentences :
  • You flog us like children, but you forget that we are grown, and that it is more than the body that smarts.
  • Extract from : « The Wild Geese » by Stanley John Weyman
  • Possibly there was considerable of irony in it too, the kind that smarts with all lads.
  • Extract from : « The Banner Boy Scouts on a Tour » by George A. Warren
  • Where Smarts numbers are different, they are shown with popups.
  • Extract from : « The Fables of Phdrus » by Phaedrus
  • After the flesh glove, come two courses of soaping—how it smarts!
  • Extract from : « At the Court of the Amr » by John Alfred Gray
  • Smarts they still, sickness soothing: in twelve moons thrice an hundred.
  • Extract from : « Ulysses » by James Joyce
  • That's so, boy—it's like the freeze—go sudden to a fire, and mark how it smarts.
  • Extract from : « The Red River Half-Breed » by Gustave Aimard
  • It is only a shameless one and one without faith who profits by his brother's smarts.
  • Extract from : « Soldiers Three » by Rudyard Kipling
  • "No; but I've got a burned knee and it smarts," retorted Bob.
  • Extract from : « The Iron Boys in the Steel Mills » by James R. Mears
  • You're not to mind if it smarts a little; that's when the fish bite.
  • Extract from : « Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories » by Various
  • "Oh, it's nothing," returned Kate, who did not make much of smarts.
  • Extract from : « The Argosy » by Various

Synonyms for smarts

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