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smartness

smartness noun: the state or quality of being smart, intelligence.

Noun

smartness (countable and uncountable, plural smartnesses)

  1. (uncountable) The state or quality of being smart, intelligence.
  2. (uncountable) The state or quality of being smart in appearance.
    • The station buildings at Oxton and Lauder have been repainted, and a general air of smartness prevails, marred only by some broken signal spectacles.1947 March and April, “Notes and News: The Lauder Light Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 116
  3. (countable) The result or product of being smart.

smartness meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Telugu

smartness in Tamil

வினைத் திறமிக்க, மிடுக்கான, புத்திசாலித்தனமான

smartness in Urdu

بانل پن, خوش لباسی

smartness in Bengali

বুদ্ধিমত্তা, চতুরতা, পারিপাট্য

smartness in Telugu

smartness, dexterity, cleverness
చలాకు calāku
smartness, intelligence
హుషారు huṣāru
More languagesFewer languages
smartness in Malayalam
മിടുക്ക് miṭukkŭ
smartness in Kannada
ಜಾಣತನ, ಚಾತುರ್ಯ, ಹೊಂತಕಾರಿತನ

Forms of smartness

pluralsmartnesses

Origin of smartness

From Middle English smartnesse, smertnesse, equivalent to smart + -ness. Cognate with Middle Dutch smartenisse (“pain, injury, insult, scorn, agony”).

Questions about smartness

What does smartness mean?
Smartness means the state or quality of being smart, intelligence.
What is smartness in Tamil?
Smartness in Tamil is வினைத் திறமிக்க, மிடுக்கான, புத்திசாலித்தனமான. See Smartness meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is smartness?
Smartness is a noun.
What is the plural of smartness?
The plural of smartness is smartnesses.

Words near smartness in the dictionary

  1. smartmodems
  2. smartmouth
  3. smartmouthed
  4. smartmouthing
  5. smartmouths
  6. smartness
  7. smartnesses
  8. smartpen
  9. smartpens
  10. smartphone
  11. smartphone zombie

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: smartness (page history and authors); smartness (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); smartness (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); smartness (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); చలాకు (Telugu) (page history and authors); smartness (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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