Noun: smarts smaarts
Usage: N. Amer, Austral, informal
Usage: N. Amer, Austral, informal
- Mental ability
"Her quick smarts helped her solve the puzzle in record time";
- brain, brainpower, learning ability, mental capacity, mentality, wit
- A kind of pain such as that caused by a wound or a burn or a sore
"He felt a smart sensation where the antiseptic touched his cut";
- smarting, smartness
Type of: cause to be perceived, hurting, intelligence, pain
Encyclopedia: Smarts
Smart, Paul