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smartly

/ˈsmɑː(ɹ)tli/

smartly adverb: with a fine or fashionable appearance.

Adverb

smartly (comparative more smartly, superlative most smartly)

  1. With a fine or fashionable appearance.
    • smartly dressed
  2. Quickly.
    • She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realizing that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter II...
    • He set smartly off towards the shops […]1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London
  3. Intelligently.

smartly meaning in Marathi, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada

smartly in Marathi

smartly, promptly, freely
कडक kaḍak

smartly in Bengali

মার্জিত, কেতাদুরস্ত চেহারার সাথে, দ্রুতভাবে, বুদ্ধিমানভাবে

smartly in Malayalam

വെടിപ്പായി, മോടിയായി

smartly in Kannada

ಕಚ್ಚನೆ

Examples of smartly in a sentence

  • “This is no casual raid, which is more reason to fight smartly.
  • FERDINAND: Sire, bend thou down thine aged frame And do thou smartly pluck it up again.
  • “I look both ways, and if it’s all clear I walk smartly across.”

All 24 example sentences with smartly

Forms of smartly

comparativemore smartly
superlativemost smartly

Origin of smartly

From Middle English smertly; equivalent to smart + -ly.

Questions about smartly

What does smartly mean?
Smartly means with a fine or fashionable appearance.
What is smartly in Marathi?
Smartly in Marathi is कडक (kaḍak). See Smartly meaning in Marathi.
What part of speech is smartly?
Smartly is an adverb.
How do you pronounce smartly?
Smartly is pronounced /ˈsmɑː(ɹ)tli/.

Words near smartly in the dictionary

  1. smartlessness
  2. smartlet
  3. smartlets
  4. smartling
  5. smartlings
  6. smartly
  7. smartman
  8. smartmen
  9. smartmodem
  10. smartmodems
  11. smartmouth

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: smartly (page history and authors); कडक (Marathi) (page history and authors); smartly (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); smartly (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); smartly (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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