SMARTS Synonyms: 82 Similar and Opposite Words

smarts 1 of 2

noun

plural of smart

as in intelligence

the ability to learn and understand or to deal with problems she had the smarts to start college at age 16, but perhaps not the emotional maturity

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smarts

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verb

present tense third-person singular of smart

as in aches

to feel or cause physical pain the injection only smarted for a moment

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At least one militant from the Islamic Jihad group and three security force members have been killed, including a captain in the intelligence services whose death was announced Wednesday, according to the Palestinian forces.

Majdi Mohammed and Tia Goldenberg, Los Angeles Times, 25 Dec. 2024
Up to that point, MicroStrategy had been a middling business intelligence software vendor, but since then, its purchased over 444,000 bitcoins, using its ever-increasing share price as a way to sell stock, raise debt and buy more coin.

Ari Levy, CNBC, 25 Dec. 2024

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