Word.ws English Dictionary

smartened up

smartened up is the simple past and past participle of smarten up.

Meaning of smarten up

Verb

smarten up (third-person singular simple present smartens up, present participle smartening up, simple past and past participle smartened up)

  1. (intransitive) To wear smart clothes and look more stylish
  2. (intransitive) To make something look smart or smarter.
    • All the trains and the 300 stations were smartened up, "and we dared to advertise" - something that had previously been impossible because the offering was not good enough.2026 April 1, Christian Wolmar, “Managers must be given freedom to make decisions”, in RAIL, number 1058, page 34
  3. (intransitive) To become less stupid or naive
  4. (transitive) To make less stupid or naive

Questions about smartened up

What is smartened up the simple past and past participle of?
Smartened up is the simple past and past participle of smarten up.

Words near smartened up in the dictionary

  1. smarted
  2. smarted off
  3. smarten
  4. smarten up
  5. smartened
  6. smartened up
  7. smartening
  8. smartening up
  9. smartens
  10. smartens up
  11. smarter

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: smartened up (page history and authors); smarten up (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “smartened up.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/smartened_up. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.