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Plural of smart

regular plural

The plural of smart is smarts.

Forms of smart

Singularsmart /smɑɹt/
Pluralsmarts
Countablecountable

Smarts in a sentence

  • After being hit with a pitch, the batter exclaimed "Ouch, my arm smarts!"
  • Back then, wcw would agonize over its decisions in an attempt to outsmart the “smarts.”2005 June 29, "Sir" Adam Kleinberg, Adam Nudelman, Mysteries of Wrestling: Solved, ECW Press, →ISBN, page 138
  • True, Madeline does not have a lot of book smarts, but she is plenty wise enough where it counts.From the entry where it counts
  • He gets the money by using his smarts and out-cunning everyone out there.2013, Gayton McKenzie, A Hustler's Bible, →ISBN, page 5. From the entry outcun
  • At times Benedick and Beatrice's verbal sparrings drip with an acidity that smarts.2010, Kenneth Tucker, Shakespeare and Jungian Typology: A Reading of the Plays, page 48. From the entry sparring

Meaning of smart

  1. verb To hurt or sting.
  2. verb To cause a smart or sting in.
  3. verb To feel a pungent pain of mind; to feel sharp pain or grief; to be punished severely; to feel the sting of evil.

Full definition of smart

Questions about the plural of smart

What is the plural of smart?
The plural of smart is smarts.
Is smart countable?
Smart is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: smart (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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