Antonyms for smart
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1. smart

   Clever, as used in England, especially implies an aptitude for study or learning, and for excellent tho not preeminent mental achievement. The early New England usage as implying simple and weak good nature has largely affected the use of the word throughout the United States, where it has never been much in favor. Smart, indicating dashing ability, is now coming to have a suggestion of unscrupulousness, similar to that of the word sharp, which makes its use a doubtful compliment. The discriminating use of such words as able, gifted, talented, etc., is greatly preferable to an excessive use of the word clever. Compare ACUMEN; ASTUTE; POWER.

   Antonyms:
   awkward, bungling, clumsy, dull, foolish, idiotic, ignorant, senseless, slow, stupid, thick-headed, witless

   Synonyms:
   able, adroit, apt, bright, capable, clever, dexterous, expert, gifted, happy, ingenious, intellectual, intelligent, keen, knowing, quick, quick-witted, sharp, skilful, talented

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1. smart

   Antonyms:
   dull, heavy, aching, slow, inactive, stupid, sluggish, unready, slow-minded, unwitty, dowdy, shabby, clownish

   Synonyms:
   keen, pungent, piercing, quick, vigorous, sharp, severe, active, clever, brilliant, vivacious, witty, ready, spruce, brisk, fresh, dressy, showy

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1. smart, smarting, smartnessadjective

   a kind of pain such as that caused by a wound or a burn or a sore

   Antonyms:
   thickheaded, dopy, lumpish, dim, mild, goosy, gormless, dopey, unstylish, jerky, loggerheaded, witless, cloddish, duncical, manual, blockheaded, boneheaded, goosey, soft-witted, slow, gaumless, thick, nitwitted, senseless, dull, duncish, backward, gooselike, dumb, unthinking, stupid, thick-skulled, foolish, yokel-like, unintelligent, dense, weak, wooden-headed, doltish, anserine, styleless, obtuse, fatheaded, lumpen

   Synonyms:
   stylishness, last word, alacrity, chichi, chicness, smartness, brightness, cleverness, chic, smarting, swank, modishness, briskness

2. smartadjective

   showing mental alertness and calculation and resourcefulness

   Antonyms:
   slow, blockheaded, dim, doltish, dull, mild, duncish, styleless, gaumless, stupid, dopey, backward, weak, boneheaded, gormless, cloddish, nitwitted, goosy, manual, witless, anserine, foolish, dopy, goosey, unstylish, fatheaded, unintelligent, dense, duncical, jerky, lumpen, thick, gooselike, lumpish, unthinking, loggerheaded, dumb, senseless, wooden-headed, yokel-like, thickheaded, soft-witted, thick-skulled, obtuse

   Synonyms:
   voguish, wise, sassy, impertinent, chic, bright, saucy, overbold, fresh, impudent

3. chic, smart, voguishadjective

   elegant and stylish

   "chic elegance"; "a smart new dress"; "a suit of voguish cut"

   Antonyms:
   boneheaded, nitwitted, thick-skulled, wooden-headed, unintelligent, dumb, soft-witted, manual, obtuse, fatheaded, unthinking, lumpish, foolish, lumpen, duncish, gormless, blockheaded, styleless, gooselike, slow, stupid, gaumless, dopy, thickheaded, goosey, jerky, cloddish, goosy, senseless, yokel-like, weak, mild, backward, unstylish, loggerheaded, dull, anserine, dopey, doltish, dim, thick, duncical, dense, witless

   Synonyms:
   trendy, voguish, wise, sassy, impertinent, chic, bright, saucy, overbold, fresh, impudent

4. bright, smartadjective

   characterized by quickness and ease in learning

   "some children are brighter in one subject than another"; "smart children talk earlier than the average"

   Antonyms:
   obtuse, dim, goosey, thickheaded, unstylish, cloddish, thick-skulled, yokel-like, stupid, soft-witted, dopy, slow, witless, unintelligent, styleless, manual, lumpen, loggerheaded, boneheaded, dopey, duncical, foolish, duncish, fatheaded, blockheaded, goosy, weak, backward, dumb, lumpish, nitwitted, senseless, gormless, jerky, wooden-headed, mild, dull, thick, anserine, dense, gaumless, gooselike, doltish, unthinking

   Synonyms:
   shining, promising, voguish, wise, fresh, chic, brilliant, bright, lustrous, burnished, saucy, impertinent, vivid, sassy, hopeful, undimmed, overbold, impudent, shiny

5. fresh, impertinent, impudent, overbold, smart, saucy, sassy, wiseadjective

   improperly forward or bold

   "don't be fresh with me"; "impertinent of a child to lecture a grownup"; "an impudent boy given to insulting strangers"; "Don't get wise with me!"

   Antonyms:
   obtuse, unstylish, anserine, styleless, senseless, dopey, dense, backward, foolish, cloddish, gormless, boneheaded, yokel-like, unthinking, mild, wooden-headed, fatheaded, witless, dopy, dull, lumpen, stupid, dim, slow, goosey, manual, blockheaded, unintelligent, thickheaded, jerky, gaumless, gooselike, thick-skulled, duncish, dumb, loggerheaded, soft-witted, thick, doltish, weak, lumpish, duncical, goosy, nitwitted

   Synonyms:
   invigorated, wise, flip, chic, brisk, saucy, heady, new, pert, wise(p), sassy, overbold, judicious, orthogonal, irreverent, clean, insolent, sweet, immaterial, impertinent, fresh, snotty-nosed, knowing, reinvigorated, impudent, novel, refreshing, refreshful, unused, voguish, tonic, refreshed, bracing, wise to(p), extraneous, unfermented, bright

6. smartadjective

   painfully severe

   "he gave the dog a smart blow"

   Antonyms:
   dopey, unstylish, stupid, slow, styleless, goosy, manual, unthinking, blockheaded, lumpish, dense, wooden-headed, foolish, goosey, gormless, unintelligent, gooselike, soft-witted, dull, cloddish, senseless, thick-skulled, anserine, yokel-like, backward, mild, duncish, jerky, doltish, thickheaded, loggerheaded, lumpen, dim, fatheaded, weak, obtuse, boneheaded, nitwitted, gaumless, dopy, witless, dumb, thick, duncical

   Synonyms:
   voguish, wise, sassy, impertinent, chic, bright, saucy, overbold, fresh, impudent

7. smartadjective

   quick and brisk

   "I gave him a smart salute"; "we walked at a smart pace"

   Antonyms:
   goosey, thickheaded, weak, dense, obtuse, dopy, thick, dull, duncical, stupid, foolish, wooden-headed, slow, gooselike, mild, jerky, thick-skulled, senseless, goosy, gaumless, backward, yokel-like, boneheaded, soft-witted, lumpen, styleless, dim, blockheaded, unthinking, lumpish, doltish, duncish, fatheaded, nitwitted, unintelligent, loggerheaded, cloddish, witless, gormless, unstylish, anserine, manual, dopey, dumb

   Synonyms:
   voguish, wise, sassy, impertinent, chic, bright, saucy, overbold, fresh, impudent

8. smartverb

   capable of independent and apparently intelligent action

   "smart weapons"

   Antonyms:
   gaumless, duncish, gormless, boneheaded, dumb, slow, styleless, jerky, thick, dopey, nitwitted, soft-witted, foolish, stupid, manual, thick-skulled, obtuse, lumpish, dopy, unstylish, backward, goosey, unthinking, yokel-like, fatheaded, cloddish, dim, witless, doltish, dull, wooden-headed, anserine, gooselike, loggerheaded, weak, goosy, mild, thickheaded, senseless, duncical, unintelligent, blockheaded, lumpen, dense

   Synonyms:
   voguish, wise, sassy, impertinent, chic, bright, saucy, overbold, fresh, impudent

9. ache, smart, hurtverb

   be the source of pain

   Antonyms:
   unstylish, lumpish, gormless, anserine, thick, duncish, witless, blockheaded, slow, thickheaded, jerky, dopey, fatheaded, unthinking, manual, dull, senseless, styleless, weak, unintelligent, dumb, lumpen, duncical, goosy, gooselike, stupid, doltish, dopy, goosey, obtuse, backward, gaumless, loggerheaded, yokel-like, dim, boneheaded, foolish, wooden-headed, nitwitted, soft-witted, mild, dense, cloddish, thick-skulled

   Synonyms:
   languish, hurt, wound, injure, yearn, bruise, offend, ache, suffer, pine, anguish, spite, pain, yen

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1. smartadjective

   Antonyms:
   dull, inapt, dowdy, tawdry

   Synonyms:
   acute, bright, clever, apt, brilliant, gifted, talented, precocious, vigorous, energetic, forcible, fashionable, pretentious, trim, elegant, fresh, smacking, brisk, agile, nimble, lively, pungent, poignant, intense, keen

2. smartverb

   Synonyms:
   sting, prick, suffer

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1. SMaRT

   Synonyms:
   Spliceosome-mediated RNA trans-splicing

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1. stupid

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2. stupidity

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How to use smart in a sentence?

1. Carolyn Freyer-Jones:

   That's the kind of person Hugh Freyer was. Hugh Freyer paid everything on time, Hugh Freyer helped people, Hugh Freyer was really funny and Hugh Freyer was smart.

2. Lori Bizzoco:

   When a man respects and is proud of his partner, just as Clooney mentioned in his speech, he cannot help but vocalize this happiness, he doesn't do this to boast or brag; he sincerely just wants to respect her as his equal and let others know what's important to him now.The fact that Amal is young, smart, and a humanitarian really speaks to him on levels that go far deeper than what he has had with other women in the past.

3. Philip Dawson:

   It was disappointing to not see more information on data trusts and a more clear concept of what type of data trust they're talking about, it could've set a different precedent for a proposal on data management in the context of smart cities.

4. Donald Trump:

   We need energy, i don't think Ben has the energy. Ben is a nice man, but when you're negotiating against China, and you're negotiating against these Japanese guys who are going to come at you in waves ... we need people that are really smart that have tremendous deal-making skills and have great, great energy.

5. Torrei Hart:

   I’m at a place in my life where I feel like I have a target on my back, and because of that I should make smart decisions. And recently, I didn’t. You know, I’m not perfect. I’m not going to sit up here and say that I am or claim to be in any way shape or form. And I made a bad error in judgment and I put myself in a bad environment where only bad things can happen and they did.

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