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naive

English

Alternative forms

  • naïve

Etymology

Borrowed from French naïve, from Latin nativus (native, natural). Doublet of native.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /na??i?v/, /n???i?v/
  • Rhymes: -i?v

Adjective

naive (comparative more naive, superlative most naive)

  1. Lacking worldly experience, wisdom, or judgement; unsophisticated.
  2. Not having been exposed to something.
    • 2011, Lila Miller, Kate Hurley, Infectious Disease Management in Animal Shelters
      Animals entering shelters are either (a) immunologically naïve and susceptible to infection and development of disease if exposed to pathogens; (b) already immune []
  3. (of art) Produced in a simple, childlike style, deliberately rejecting sophisticated techniques.
  4. (computing) Intuitive; designed to follow the way ordinary people approach a problem.

Synonyms

  • See also Thesaurus:naive

Antonyms

  • See also Thesaurus:naive

Derived terms

Related terms

  • naif
  • naïf

Translations

Noun

naive (plural naives)

  1. A naive person; a greenhorn.

Anagrams

  • avine, naevi, navie, nævi

Danish

Adjective

naive

  1. inflection of naiv:
    1. definite singular
    2. plural

Esperanto

Etymology

From naiva +? -e.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /na?ive/
  • Hyphenation: na?i?ve
  • Rhymes: -ive

Adverb

naive

  1. naively

German

Pronunciation

Adjective

naive

  1. inflection of naiv:
    1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
    2. strong nominative/accusative plural
    3. weak nominative all-gender singular
    4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

naive

  1. definite singular/plural of naiv

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

naive

  1. definite singular/plural of naiv

Swedish

Adjective

naive

  1. absolute definite natural masculine form of naiv.

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smart

English

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /sm??t/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /sm??t/
  • Rhymes: -??(?)t

Etymology 1

From Middle English smerten, from Old English smeortan (to smart), from Proto-Germanic *smertan? (to hurt, ache), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)merd- (to bite, sting). Cognate with Scots smert, Dutch smarten, German schmerzen, Danish smerte, Swedish smärta.

Verb

smart (third-person singular simple present smarts, present participle smarting, simple past smarted or (obsolete) smort, past participle smarted or (obsolete) smorten)

  1. (intransitive) To hurt or sting.
    • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula Chapter 21
      He moved convulsively, and as he did so, said, "I'll be quiet, Doctor. Tell them to take off the strait waistcoat. I have had a terrible dream, and it has left me so weak that I cannot move. What's wrong with my face? It feels all swollen, and it smarts dreadfully."
  2. (transitive) To cause a smart or sting in.
    • a. 1652, Thomas Adams, Faith's Encouragement
      A goad that [] smarts the flesh.
  3. (intransitive) To feel a pungent pain of mind; to feel sharp pain or grief; be punished severely; to feel the sting of evil.
    • He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it.
Derived terms
  • arsesmart
  • besmart
  • nosesmart
  • smartful
  • smarting
  • smartweed
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English smerte, smert, smarte, smart, from Old English smeart (smarting, smart, painful), from Proto-Germanic *smartaz (hurting, aching), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)merd- (to bite, sting). Cognate with Scots smert (painful, smart), Old Frisian smert (sharp, painful).

Adjective

smart (comparative smarter or more smart, superlative smartest or most smart)

  1. Exhibiting social ability or cleverness.
    Synonyms: bright, capable, sophisticated, witty
    Antonyms: backward, banal, boorish, dull, inept
    • 1811, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, chapter 19
      I always preferred the church, and I still do. But that was not smart enough for my family. They recommended the army. That was a great deal too smart for me.
  2. (informal) Exhibiting intellectual knowledge, such as that found in books.
    Synonyms: cultivated, educated, learned; see also Thesaurus:learned
    Antonyms: ignorant, uncultivated, simple
  3. (often in combination) Equipped with intelligent behaviour (digital/computer technology).
  4. Good-looking; well dressed; fine; fashionable.
    Synonyms: attractive, chic, dapper, stylish, handsome
    Antonyms: garish, outré, tacky
  5. Cleverly shrewd and humorous in a way that may be rude and disrespectful.
    Synonym: silly
    • 1728, Edward Young, Satire
      Who, for the poor renown of being smart / Would leave a sting within a brother's heart?
    • I played a sentence or two at my butt, which I thought very smart, when my ill genius, who I verily believed inspired him purely for my destruction, suggested to him such a reply
  6. Sudden and intense.
    • 1860 July 9, Henry David Thoreau, journal entry, from Thoreau's bird-lore, Francis H. Allen (editor), Houghton Mifflin (Boston, 1910), Thoreau on Birds: notes on New England birds from the Journals of Henry David Thoreau, Beacon Press, (Boston, 1993), page 239:
      There is a smart shower at 5 P.M., and in the midst of it a hummingbird is busy about the flowers in the garden, unmindful of it, though you would think that each big drop that struck him would be a serious accident.
  7. Causing sharp pain; stinging.
  8. Sharp; keen; poignant.
  9. (Southern US, dated) Intense in feeling; painful. Used usually with the adverb intensifier right.
  10. (archaic) Efficient; vigorous; brilliant.
    • The stars shine smarter.
  11. (archaic) Pretentious; showy; spruce.
  12. (archaic) Brisk; fresh.
Related terms
Descendants
  • ? German: smart
Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English smerte, from smerten (to smart). See above. Cognate with Scots smert, Dutch smart, Low German smart, German Schmerz, Danish smerte, Swedish smärta. More above.

Noun

smart (plural smarts)

  1. A sharp, quick, lively pain; a sting.
    • 1567, Arthur Golding (translator), The XV Bookes of P. Ouidius Naso, entytuled Metamorphosis, London: William Seres, Book , p. 51,[2]
      [] the bodie had no smart
      Of any wound: it was the minde that felt the cruell stings.
    • 1716, Alexander Pope (translator), The Iliad of Homer, London: Bernard Lintot, Volume 2, Book 5, lines 176-178, p. 25,[3]
      If chance some Shepherd with a distant Dart
      The Savage wound, he rowzes at the Smart,
      He foams, he roars []
    • 1871, Louisa May Alcott, Little Men, Chapter 12,[4]
      Of course Tommy came to grief, tumbled upon a hornets’ nest and got stung; but being used to woe, he bore the smart manfully []
    • 1948, Graham Greene, The Heart of the Matter, London: Heinemann, Book One, Part One, Chapter 1, section 8, p. 42,[5]
      The smart of his wounded hand woke Scobie at two in the morning.
  2. Mental pain or suffering; grief; affliction.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 1, Canto 7, p. 101,[6]
      Mishaps are maistred by aduice discrete,
      And counsell mitigates the greatest smart;
      Found neuer help, who neuer would his hurts impart.
    • 1673, John Milton, “Anno aetatis 17. On the Death of a fair Infant dying of a Cough” in Poems, &c. upon Several Occasions Both English and Latin, London: Thomas Dring, p. 20,[7]
      But oh why didst thou not stay here below
      To bless us with thy heav’n lov’d innocence, []
      To stand ’twixt us and our deserved smart
      But thou canst best perform that office where thou art.
    • 1861, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, Chapter 8,[8]
      I was so humiliated, hurt, spurned, offended, angry, sorry,—I cannot hit upon the right name for the smart—God knows what its name was,—that tears started to my eyes.
    • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, London: Picador, Chapter 9, p. 250,[9]
      [] Bertrand said, ‘No, you bloody idiot, do you think I drink this? I want mineral water.’ The girl recoiled for just a second at the smart of his tone [] and then apologized with steely insincerity.
  3. Smart-money.
  4. (slang, dated) A dandy; one who is smart in dress; one who is brisk, vivacious, or clever.
    • 1742, Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews, London: A. Millar, 3rd edition, 1743, Volume 2, Book 3, Chapter 3, p. 27,[10]
      [] I resolved to quit all further Conversation with Beaus and Smarts of every kind []
Derived terms
  • smartful

Anagrams

  • MSTAR, marts, stram, tarms, trams

Danish

Etymology

From English smart

Adjective

smart (neuter smart, plural and definite singular attributive smarte, comparative smartere, superlative (predicative) smartest, superlative (attributive) smarteste)

  1. (of a solution, contraption, plan etc.) well thought-out, neat
  2. snazzy, fashionable, dapper

Derived terms

  • oversmart

Dutch

Alternative forms

  • smert (dialectal)

Etymology

From Middle Dutch smarte, from Proto-Germanic *smertan?. Cf. German Schmerz, English smart.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sm?rt/
  • Hyphenation: smart
  • Rhymes: -?rt

Noun

smart f (plural smarten)

  1. pain, sorrow, grief

Derived terms

  • gedeelde smart is halve smart
  • met smart
  • smartengeld

German

Etymology

Borrowed from English smart, 19th c.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sma???t/, /sma?t/

Adjective

smart (comparative smarter, superlative am smartesten)

  1. smart (exhibiting social ability or cleverness)
    Synonyms: aufgeweckt, clever, gewitzt, pfiffig
  2. smart (good-looking, well-dressed)
    Synonyms: chic, elegant, fein

Further reading

  • “smart” in Duden online

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English smart

Adjective

smart (neuter singular smart, definite singular and plural smarte, comparative smartere, indefinite superlative smartest, definite superlative smarteste)

  1. clever (mentally sharp or bright)
  2. smart

Derived terms

  • smartklokke
  • smarttelefon

References

  • “smart” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English smart

Adjective

smart (neuter singular smart, definite singular and plural smarte, comparative smartare, indefinite superlative smartast, definite superlative smartaste)

  1. clever (mentally sharp or bright)
  2. smart

Derived terms

  • smartklokke
  • smarttelefon

References

  • “smart” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Spanish

Adjective

smart (invariable)

  1. smart (with smart technology)

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English smart.

Pronunciation

Adjective

smart (comparative smartare, superlative smartast)

  1. smart; clever

Declension

Anagrams

  • tarms, trams

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