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outsmart

/aʊtˈsmɑː(ɹ)t/

outsmart verb: to beat in a competition of wits.

Verb

outsmart (third-person singular simple present outsmarts, present participle outsmarting, simple past and past participle outsmarted)

  1. (transitive) To beat in a competition of wits.
    • Maldonado, who is in only his second season in Formula 1, won the Spanish Grand Prix after his team outsmarted Ferrari with pit-stop timing.2012 May 13, Andrew Benson, “Williams's Pastor Maldonado takes landmark Spanish Grand Prix win”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 17 Feb 2021
    Synonyms:
    outfox, outguess, outwit

outsmart meaning in Tamil and Malayalam

outsmart in Tamil

நுண்திறன்

outsmart in Malayalam

outmanoeuvre, outwit, outplay
തന്ത്രത്തിൽ വെല്ലുക, അതിസാമർത്ഥ്യം കാട്ടുക, കൗശലം കാട്ടുക, കൗശലത്തിൽ അതിശയിക്കുക, ഉപായം കൊണ്ടുജയിക്കുക, കൗശല പ്രവർത്തിക്കുക

Examples of outsmart in a sentence

  • A skilled trickster knows how to outsmart their enemies with ease.
  • A few may be able to outsmart him, but no one can outwork him.
  • You have to get up pretty early in the morning if you want to outsmart or outwork Jane.

All 12 example sentences with outsmart

Synonyms of outsmart

Forms of outsmart

third-person singular presentoutsmarts
present participleoutsmarting
past participleoutsmarted
pastoutsmarted

Past tense of outsmart: outsmarted

Origin of outsmart

From out- + smart.

Words formed from outsmart

Words that rhyme with outsmart

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Questions about outsmart

What does outsmart mean?
Outsmart means to beat in a competition of wits.
What is outsmart in Tamil?
Outsmart in Tamil is நுண்திறன். See Outsmart meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is outsmart?
Outsmart is a verb.
How do you pronounce outsmart?
Outsmart is pronounced /aʊtˈsmɑː(ɹ)t/.
What is the past tense of outsmart?
The past tense of outsmart is outsmarted.

Words near outsmart in the dictionary

  1. outslunk
  2. outslut
  3. outsluts
  4. outslutted
  5. outslutting
  6. outsmart
  7. outsmarted
  8. outsmarter
  9. outsmarters
  10. outsmarting
  11. outsmartings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: outsmart (page history and authors); outsmart (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); outsmart (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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