Smart vs. Sting
Smartverb
(intransitive) To hurt or sting.
Smartverb
(transitive) To cause a smart or sting in.
Smartverb
(intransitive) To feel a pungent pain of mind; to feel sharp pain or grief; to suffer; to feel the sting of evil.
Smartadjective
Exhibiting social ability or cleverness.
Smartadjective
(informal) Exhibiting intellectual knowledge, such as that found in books.
Smartadjective
Equipped with digital/computer technology.
Smartadjective
Good-looking.
Smartadjective
Cleverly shrewd and humorous in a way that may be rude and disrespectful.
Smartadjective
Sudden and intense.
Smartadjective
Causing sharp pain; stinging.
Smartadjective
Sharp; keen; poignant.
Smartadjective
Intense in feeling; painful. Used usually with the adverb intensifier right.
Smartadjective
(archaic) Efficient; vigorous; brilliant.
Smartadjective
(archaic) Pretentious; showy; spruce.
Smartadjective
(archaic) Brisk; fresh.
Smartnoun
A sharp, quick, lively pain; a sting.
Smartnoun
Mental pain or suffering; grief; affliction.
Smartnoun
Smart-money.
Smartnoun
A dandy; one who is smart in dress; one who is brisk, vivacious, or clever.
Smartverb
To feel a lively, pungent local pain; - said of some part of the body as the seat of irritation; as, my finger smarts; these wounds smart.
Smartverb
To feel a pungent pain of mind; to feel sharp pain or grief; to suffer; to feel the sting of evil; as, the team is still smarting from its loss of the championship.
Smartverb
To cause a smart in.
Smartnoun
Quick, pungent, lively pain; a pricking local pain, as the pain from puncture by nettles.
Smartnoun
Severe, pungent pain of mind; pungent grief; as, the smart of affliction.
Smartnoun
A fellow who affects smartness, briskness, and vivacity; a dandy.
Smartnoun
Smart money (see below).
Smartadjective
Causing a smart; pungent; pricking; as, a smart stroke or taste.
Smartadjective
Keen; severe; poignant; as, smart pain.
Smartadjective
Vigorous; sharp; severe.
Smartadjective
Accomplishing, or able to accomplish, results quickly; active; sharp; clever.
Smartadjective
Efficient; vigorous; brilliant.
Smartadjective
Marked by acuteness or shrewdness; quick in suggestion or reply; vivacious; witty; as, a smart reply; a smart saying.
Smartadjective
Pretentious; showy; spruce; as, a smart gown.
Smartadjective
Brisk; fresh; as, a smart breeze.
Smartnoun
a kind of pain such as that caused by a wound or a burn or a sore
Smartverb
be the source of pain
Smartadjective
showing mental alertness and calculation and resourcefulness
Smartadjective
elegant and stylish;
Smartadjective
characterized by quickness and ease in learning;
Smartadjective
improperly forward or bold;
Smartadjective
marked by smartness in dress and manners;
Smartadjective
(of a person) clean, tidy, and well dressed
Smartadjective
(of clothes) attractively neat and stylish
Smartadjective
(of an object) bright and fresh in appearance
Smartadjective
(of a place) fashionable and upmarket
Smartadjective
having or showing a quick-witted intelligence
Smartadjective
(of a device) programmed so as to be capable of some independent action
Smartadjective
showing impertinence by making clever or sarcastic remarks
Smartadjective
quick; brisk
Smartverb
(of part of the body) feel a sharp stinging pain
Smartverb
feel upset and annoyed
Smartnoun
sharp stinging pain
Smartnoun
mental pain or suffering
Smartnoun
intelligence; acumen
Stingnoun
A bump left on the skin after having been stung.
Stingnoun
A puncture made by an insect or arachnid in an attack, usually including the injection of venom.
Stingnoun
A pointed portion of an insect or arachnid used for attack.
Stingnoun
A sharp, localised pain primarily on the epidermis
Stingnoun
(botany) A sharp-pointed hollow hair seated on a gland which secretes an acrid fluid, as in nettles.
Stingnoun
The thrust of a sting into the flesh; the act of stinging; a wound inflicted by stinging.
Stingnoun
(law enforcement) A police operation in which the police pretend to be criminals in order to catch a criminal.
Stingnoun
A short percussive phrase played by a drummer to accent the punchline in a comedy show.
Stingnoun
A brief sequence of music used in films, TV, and video games as a form of scenic punctuation or to identify the broadcasting station.
Stingnoun
A support for a wind tunnel model which extends parallel to the air flow.
Stingnoun
(figurative) The harmful or painful part of something.
Stingnoun
A goad; incitement.
Stingnoun
The concluding point of an epigram or other sarcastic saying.
Stingverb
(ambitransitive) To hurt, usually by introducing poison or a sharp point, or both.
Stingverb
To puncture with the stinger.
Stingverb
To hurt, to be in pain (physically or emotionally).
Stingverb
(figurative) To cause harm or pain to.
Stingnoun
Any sharp organ of offense and defense, especially when connected with a poison gland, and adapted to inflict a wound by piercing; as the caudal sting of a scorpion. The sting of a bee or wasp is a modified ovipositor. The caudal sting, or spine, of a sting ray is a modified dorsal fin ray. The term is sometimes applied to the fang of a serpent. See Illust. of Scorpion.
Stingnoun
A sharp-pointed hollow hair seated on a gland which secrets an acrid fluid, as in nettles. The points of these hairs usually break off in the wound, and the acrid fluid is pressed into it.
Stingnoun
Anything that gives acute pain, bodily or mental; as, the stings of remorse; the stings of reproach.
Stingnoun
The thrust of a sting into the flesh; the act of stinging; a wound inflicted by stinging.
Stingnoun
A goad; incitement.
Stingnoun
The point of an epigram or other sarcastic saying.
Stingverb
To pierce or wound with a sting; as, bees will sting an animal that irritates them; the nettles stung his hands.
Stingverb
To pain acutely; as, the conscience is stung with remorse; to bite.
Stingverb
To goad; to incite, as by taunts or reproaches.
Stingnoun
a kind of pain; something as sudden and painful as being stung;
Stingnoun
a mental pain or distress;
Stingnoun
a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin
Stingnoun
a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
Stingverb
cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort;
Stingverb
deliver a sting to;
Stingverb
saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous;
Stingverb
cause a stinging pain;
Stingverb
cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging;
