Chic vs. Smart

Chicadjective

Elegant, stylish.

Smartverb

(intransitive) To hurt or sting.

‘After being hit with a pitch, the batter exclaimed "Ouch, my arm smarts!"’;

Chicnoun

Good form; style.

Smartverb

(transitive) To cause a smart or sting in.

Chicnoun

(countable) A person with (a particular type of) chic.

Smartverb

(intransitive) To feel a pungent pain of mind; to feel sharp pain or grief; to suffer; to feel the sting of evil.

Chicadjective

Original and in good taste or form; stylish; in current fashion, fashionable.

Smartadjective

Exhibiting social ability or cleverness.

Chicnoun

elegance by virtue of being fashionable

Smartadjective

(informal) Exhibiting intellectual knowledge, such as that found in books.

Chicadjective

elegant and stylish;

‘chic elegance’; ‘a smart new dress’; ‘a suit of voguish cut’;

Smartadjective

Equipped with digital/computer technology.

‘smart bomb, smart car’; ‘smartcard, smartphone’;

Chicadjective

elegantly and stylishly fashionable

‘she looked every inch the chic Frenchwoman’;

Smartadjective

Good-looking.

‘a smart outfit’;

Chicnoun

stylishness and elegance, typically of a specified kind

‘the hotel's lobby and restaurant are the height of designer chic’;

Smartadjective

Cleverly shrewd and humorous in a way that may be rude and disrespectful.

‘He became tired of his daughter's sarcasm and smart remarks.’; ‘Don't get smart with me!’;

Chic

Chic (; French: [ʃik]), meaning or , is an element of fashion. It was originally a French word.

‘stylish’; ‘smart’;

Smartadjective

Sudden and intense.

Smartadjective

Causing sharp pain; stinging.

Smartadjective

Sharp; keen; poignant.

‘a smart pain’;

Smartadjective

Intense in feeling; painful. Used usually with the adverb intensifier right.

‘He raised his voice, and it hurt her feelings right smart.’; ‘That cast on his leg chaffs him right smart.’;

Smartadjective

(archaic) Efficient; vigorous; brilliant.

Smartadjective

(archaic) Pretentious; showy; spruce.

‘a smart gown’;

Smartadjective

(archaic) Brisk; fresh.

‘a smart breeze’;

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.

‘No creature smarts so little as a fool.’; ‘He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it.’;

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.

‘To stand 'twixt us and our deserved smart.’; ‘Counsel mitigates the greatest smart.’;

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.

‘How smart lash that speech doth give my conscience.’;

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.

‘Who, for the poor renown of being smartWould leave a sting within a brother's heart?’; ‘A sentence or two, . . . which I thought very smart.’;

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;

‘chic elegance’; ‘a smart new dress’; ‘a suit of voguish cut’;

Smartadjective

characterized by quickness and ease in learning;

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

Smartadjective

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’;

Smartadjective

marked by smartness in dress and manners;

‘a dapper young man’; ‘a jaunty red hat’;

Smartadjective

(of a person) clean, tidy, and well dressed

‘you look very smart’;

Smartadjective

(of clothes) attractively neat and stylish

‘a smart blue skirt’;

Smartadjective

(of an object) bright and fresh in appearance

‘a smart green van’;

Smartadjective

(of a place) fashionable and upmarket

‘a smart restaurant’;

Smartadjective

having or showing a quick-witted intelligence

‘if he was that smart he would never have been tricked’;

Smartadjective

(of a device) programmed so as to be capable of some independent action

‘hi-tech smart weapons’;

Smartadjective

showing impertinence by making clever or sarcastic remarks

‘don't get smart or I'll whack you one’;

Smartadjective

quick; brisk

‘he set off at a smart pace’;

Smartverb

(of part of the body) feel a sharp stinging pain

‘her legs were scratched and smarting’;

Smartverb

feel upset and annoyed

‘defence chiefs are still smarting from the government's cuts’;

Smartnoun

sharp stinging pain

‘the smart of the recent cuts’;

Smartnoun

mental pain or suffering

‘sorrow is the effect of smart, and smart the effect of faith’;

Smartnoun

intelligence; acumen

‘I don't think I have the smarts for it’;