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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

Etymology

From Middle English torture, from Old French torture, from Late Latin tort?ra (“a twisting, writhing, of bodily pain, a griping colic;” in Middle Latin “pain inflicted by judicial or ecclesiastical authority as a means of persuasion, torture”), from Latin tortus (whence also tort), past participle of torquere (“to twist”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?t??t???/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?t??t???(?)/
• Rhymes: -??(?)t??(?)
• Homophone: torcher
• Hyphenation: tor?ture

Noun

torture (countable and uncountable, plural tortures)

1. intentional causing of somebody's experiencing agony

2. (chiefly literary) the "suffering of the heart" imposed by one on another, as in personal relationships

   Coventry City midfielder Josh Ruffels described his 11 months out injured as 'absolute torture' after the goalless draw with Derby County Under-21s. ([3])

3. (colloquial) (often as "absolute torture") stage fright, severe embarrassment

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

torture (third-person singular simple present tortures, present participle torturing, simple past and past participle tortured)

1. (transitive) To intentionally inflict severe pain or suffering on (someone).

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• torture in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• torture in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• torture at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• trouter, tutorer

Asturian

Verb

torture

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of torturar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of torturar

French

Etymology

From Late Latin tort?ra, from Latin tortus, from torque?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??.ty?/
• Rhymes: -y?
• Homophones: torturent, tortures

Noun

torture f (plural tortures)

1. torture

   • With these passages and other similar ones, the poor gentleman lost his judgement. He spent his nights and gave himself torture to understand them, to consider them more deeply, to take from them their deepest meaning, which Aristotle himself would not have been able to do, had he been resurrected for that very purpose.

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Swedish: tortyr c

Verb

torture

1. first-person singular present indicative of torturer
2. third-person singular present indicative of torturer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of torturer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of torturer
5. second-person singular imperative of torturer

Further reading

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

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ure

Noun

torture f

1. plural of tortura

Anagrams

• rotture, rutterò, ruttore

Latin

Participle

tort?re

1. vocative masculine singular of tort?rus

Portuguese

Verb

torture

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of torturar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of torturar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of torturar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of torturar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /to??tu?e/, [t?o??t?u.?e]

Verb

torture

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of torturar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of torturar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of torturar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of torturar.