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smart-alec

smart-alec is the alternative spelling of smart-aleck.

Meaning of smart-aleck

Adjective

smart-aleck (comparative more smart-aleck, superlative most smart-aleck)

  1. Characteristic of a smart aleck.
    • smart-aleck remarks

Forms of smart-alec

comparativemore smart-alec
superlativemost smart-alec

Questions about smart-alec

What is smart-alec the alternative spelling of?
Smart-alec is the alternative spelling of smart-aleck.

Words near smart-alec in the dictionary

  1. smart tickets
  2. smart TV
  3. smart TVs
  4. smart watch
  5. smart watches
  6. smart-alec
  7. smart-aleck
  8. smart-aleckism
  9. smart-alecky
  10. smart-allecky
  11. smart-arse

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Adapted from Wiktionary: smart-alec (page history and authors); smart-aleck (page history and authors). 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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