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Meaning of smarts

- To feel a lively, pungent local pain; -- said of some part of the body as the seat of irritation; as, my finger smarts; these wounds smart.
- To feel a pungent pain of mind; to feel sharp pain or grief; to suffer; to feel the sting of evil.
- To cause a smart in.
- Quick, pungent, lively pain; a pricking local pain, as the pain from puncture by nettles.
- Severe, pungent pain of mind; pungent grief; as, the smart of affliction.
- A fellow who affects smartness, briskness, and vivacity; a dandy.
- Smart money (see below).
- Causing a smart; pungent; pricking; as, a smart stroke or taste.
- Keen; severe; poignant; as, smart pain.
- Vigorous; sharp; severe.
- Accomplishing, or able to accomplish, results quickly; active; sharp; clever.
- Efficient; vigorous; brilliant.
- Marked by acuteness or shrewdness; quick in suggestion or reply; vivacious; witty; as, a smart reply; a smart saying.
- Pretentious; showy; spruce; as, a smart gown.
- Brisk; fresh; as, a smart breeze.

Crossword clue for smarts

- Bright and fresh in appearance
- Clever
- Dressed to the nines
- Intelligent
- Is painful
- Posh
- Retro trams looking good
- Sharp sting
- Spruced-up
- Sting
- Very bright
- Intelligence
- Stings
- Stings the clever school head
- Tingles painfully