swot
UK/swɒt/US/swɑt/
swot verb: to study with effort or determination.
Verb
swot (third-person singular simple present swots, present participle swotting, simple past and past participle swotted)
- To study with effort or determination.
- Are you going to swot at it all the evening?
- Synonyms:
- cram
Noun (1)
swot (countable and uncountable, plural swots)
- One who swots; a boffin, nerd, or smart aleck.
- He liked Tom all right... Sampson and Bullock he could do without, however. Especially Sampson, who was too much of a grammar-school-type swot ever to be quite the thing.1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, page 23
- The popular science bit goes like this. Your brain has two hemispheres, left and right. The left is the organised swot who likes bright light, keeps his bedroom tidy and can tolerate sums. Your right hemisphere is your brain on drugs: the long-haired, creative type you don't bring home to mother.2006 April 18, Philip Beadle, “Mind maps: rubbish in theory, but handy in practice”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
- Work.
- All I want is — guerre fini, soldat fini; and to go home without burden of any thought save music, and hard swot for a time.Quoted in 1983, Ivor Gurney, Robert Kelsey Rought Thornton, War Letters: A Selection (page 254)
- Vigorous study at an educational institution.
Noun (2) capitalized: SWOT
SWOT (uncountable)
- Acronym of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats.
- Could you do a SWOT analysis of the business proposal I sent you?
swot meaning in Hindi and Thai
swot in Hindi
- study hard
- रटना raṭnā, रट्टा मारना raṭṭā mārnā
swot in Thai
- study hard
- ติว dtiu
Examples of swot in a sentence
- The teacher analogised swotting for an exam in terms of marathon training.
- You should swot up on your French before travelling to Paris.
- So I went to technical college for several months to swot up on navigation for the exam.
Synonyms of swot
Forms of swot
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | swots |
| present participle | swotting |
| past participle | swotted |
| past | swotted |
| alternative form | swat |
| Noun | |
| plural | swots |
Origin of swot
From a dialectal English word, from Middle English swot, swat, from Old English swāt (“perspiration; sweat”), from Proto-Germanic *swaitą (“sweat”). More at sweat.
Words formed from swot
Phrases with swot
Words that rhyme with swot
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- blot
- rot
- apricot
- ribat
- bot
- got
- not
- red-hot
- snot
- stot
- tot
- calotte
- jot
- a lot
- allot
- clot
- cot
- fembot
- frot
- mot
- quat
- white-hot
- begot
- cannot
- forgot
- garrote
- grot
- marotte
- not so hot
- nott
- Nouakchott
- overshot
- piping hot
- scot
- scrot
- sot
- subplot
- swat
- thot
- wot
- yacht
- asquat
- beach ball plot
- besot
- brat
- carotte
- chamotte
- chott
Questions about swot
- What does swot mean?
- Swot means to study with effort or determination.
- What is swot in Hindi?
- Swot in Hindi is रटना (raṭnā), रट्टा मारना (raṭṭā mārnā). See Swot meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is swot?
- Swot can be a verb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce swot?
- Swot is pronounced /swɒt/ (UK).
- What is the past tense of swot?
- The past tense of swot is swotted.
Words near swot in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: swot (page history and authors); SWOT (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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