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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

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s(j)u?p?(?)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?sup?/
• Rhymes: -u?p?(?)
• Homophone: souper (one pronunciation)
• Hyphenation: su?per

Etymology 1

From super- (prefix), from Middle English super-, from Latin super-, from super (“above”), from Pre-Italic or Proto-Indo-European *eks-uper, from *e?s (“out of”) (English ex-), from *h?e??s + *uperi (English over). Cognate to hyper, from Ancient Greek.

Adjective

super (not comparable)

1. Of excellent quality, superfine.
2. better than average, better than usual; wonderful.

Synonyms

• (better): awesome, excellent

Derived terms

• super-duper

Related terms

• super-

Translations

Adverb

super (not comparable)

1. (informal) Very; extremely (used like the prefix super-).

   The party was super awesome.

Etymology 2

Abbreviation by shortening.

Noun

super (plural supers)

1. (Australia, New Zealand, informal) Short for superannuation.

   Jane looked forward to collecting a large super payout when she retired.

2. Short for supercomputer.
   • 1989, Kai Hwang, Doug DeGroot, Parallel processing for supercomputers and artificial intelligence

     The performances and cost ranges of three classes of commercial supercomputers are given in Table 2.1. The full-scale supers are the most expensive class, represented by Cray, ETA, and Fujitsu systems, for example.

3. (comics, slang) Short for superhero.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:super.
4. (beekeeping) Short for superhive.
5. (informal, US) Short for superintendent, especially, a building's resident manager (sometimes clarified as “building super”).
6. (neologism) Short for supernaturalist, especially as distinguished from bright.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:super.
7. Short for supernumerary; (theater) specifically, a supernumerary actor.
8. Short for supertanker.
   • 1973, Jeffrey Potter, Disaster by Oil (page 46)

     That is a lot of ship, about the size of big tankers before they grew so rapidly to become supers, mammoths and oilbergs.

9. Short for supervisor.

Verb

super (third-person singular simple present supers, present participle supering, simple past and past participle supered)

1. (beekeeping) Short for superhive.
   • 1917 Dadant, C. P., First Lessons in Beekeeping; revised & rewritten edition, 1968, by M. G. Dadant and J. C. Dadant, p 73:

     The question is: when is the best time to super?

2. (television) Short for superimpose.
   • 1987, Television Quarterly (volumes 23-24)

     Even running a supered "Re-enactment" caption for a few seconds is poor policy, he feels […]

Anagrams

• Pre-Us, Purse, Rupes, puers, pures, purse, re-ups, reups, rupes, sprue

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?sup?r]

Etymology

Borrowed from English super, French super, from Latin super.

Adjective

super (indeclinable)

1. (informal) super, great

   M?j brácha si koupil super auto, to musíš vid?t!

   Ten výlet byl prost? super!

Usage notes

This word is slightly more formal than supr, yet still informal.

Synonyms

• supr

See also

• vynikající

Interjection

super

1. (informal) super

Synonyms

• supr

Further reading

• super in Kartotéka Novo?eského lexikálního archivu

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed via English super from Latin super (“over”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?su?b??]

Adjective

super (neuter super or supert, plural super or (unofficial) supre)

1. (informal) terrific

Adverb

super

1. (informal) very

Synonyms

• herre
• mega

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English super, ultimately from Latin super.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sy.p?r/
• Hyphenation: su?per

Adverb

super

1. (informal) very, extremely, super

Adjective

super (not comparable)

1. great, super

Inflection

Related terms

• hyper
• over

Esperanto

Etymology

From Latin super.

Pronunciation

Preposition

super

1. above

Antonyms

• sub

French

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin super. Doublet of the inherited sur. See also hyper, borrowed from Ancient Greek.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sy.p??/

Adjective

super (invariable)

1. superb, great

Derived terms

• super amas stellaire
• super-amas d'étoiles
• super-amas stellaire
• super combiné

Adverb

super

1. (informal) extremely, very (as an intensifier)

Synonyms

• vachement
• hyper

Interjection

super

1. great, fantastic

Related terms

• super-

Etymology 2

Probably a borrowing from a Germanic language, from *s?pan? (“to sip, sup”). If so then doublet of souper.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sy.pe/

Verb

super

1. (regional) to suck, to sip

Conjugation

Anagrams

• peurs, pures, repus, rupes

Further reading

• “super” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

German

Etymology

Borrowed from English super.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?zu?p?/

Adjective

super (not comparable)

1. (colloquial) super, great, awesome

Declension

Synonyms

• klasse
• spitze

Further reading

• “super” in Duden online

Interlingua

Preposition

super

1. about (focused on a given topic)

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin super. Cf. sopra.

Adjective

super (invariable)

1. super

Noun

super m (invariable)

1. The best
2. superphosphate

super f (invariable)

1. The best grade of petrol

Anagrams

• pruse, ruspe

Latin

Etymology

From *eks-uper, from Proto-Indo-European *h?e??s (“out of”) (Latin ex) + *uperi (“above”), from *upo. The latter is cognate to Ancient Greek ???? (hupér, “above”) and Proto-Germanic *uber (English over).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?su.per/, [?s??p?r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?su.per/, [?su?p?r]

Preposition

super (+ accusative, ablative)

1. accusative [of place] above, on the top of, upon

   Cibus super mensam est.

   The food is on the table.

2. accusative [of place] above, beyond
3. accusative [of measure] above, beyond, over, in addition to
4. ablative concerning, regarding

Usage notes

• Used in many compound words, see super-.

Adverb

super (not comparable)

1. above, on top, over
2. upwards
3. moreover, in addition, besides

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:super.

Antonyms

• sub

Derived terms

Descendants

References

• super in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• super in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• super in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[3], London: Macmillan and Co.
• super in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?^[4], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English super.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?su.p?r/

Adjective

super (indeclinable, comparative bardziej super, superlative najbardziej super)

1. (colloquial) great, excellent

Adverb

super (comparative bardziej super, superlative najbardziej super)

1. (colloquial) excellently

See also

• super-

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin super; cf. also English super. Doublet of the inherited sobre.

Adverb

super (not comparable)

1. (informal) super, very (intensifier)

   Synonyms: muito, bastante, bué, mega

Adjective

super (invariable, comparable)

1. super

Sardinian

Alternative forms

• suber
• supre
• subre

Etymology

From Latin super.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /super/

Preposition

super

1. on, on top of, above

   Synonym: supra

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin super; cf. also English super. Doublet of the inherited sobre.

Adjective

super (invariable)

1. (intensifier) very, mega

Swedish

Pronunciation 1

• IPA^(key): /²s??p?r/

Verb

super

1. present tense of supa.

Adjective

super (not comparable)

1. perfect, super, excellent, great

Declension

Only used predicatively.