Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to smart
Participle: smarted
Gerund: smarting
Indicative
Present
| I | smart |
| you | smart |
| he;she;it | smarts |
| we | smart |
| you | smart |
| they | smart |
Perfect
| I | have smarted |
| you | have smarted |
| he;she;it | has smarted |
| we | have smarted |
| you | have smarted |
| they | have smarted |
Past
| I | smarted |
| you | smarted |
| he;she;it | smarted |
| we | smarted |
| you | smarted |
| they | smarted |
Pluperfect
| I | had smarted |
| you | had smarted |
| he;she;it | had smarted |
| we | had smarted |
| you | had smarted |
| they | had smarted |
Future
| I | will smart |
| you | will smart |
| he;she;it | will smart |
| we | will smart |
| you | will smart |
| they | will smart |
Future Perfect
| I | will have smarted |
| you | will have smarted |
| he;she;it | will have smarted |
| we | will have smarted |
| you | will have smarted |
| they | will have smarted |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | smart |
| you | smart |
| he;she;it | smart |
| we | smart |
| you | smart |
| they | smart |
Perfect
| I | have smarted |
| you | have smarted |
| he;she;it | have smarted |
| we | have smarted |
| you | have smarted |
| they | have smarted |
Imperfect
| I | smarted |
| you | smarted |
| he;she;it | smarted |
| we | smarted |
| you | smarted |
| they | smarted |
Pluperfect
| I | had smarted |
| you | had smarted |
| he;she;it | had smarted |
| we | had smarted |
| you | had smarted |
| they | had smarted |
Conditional
Present
| I | would smart |
| you | would smart |
| he;she;it | would smart |
| we | would smart |
| you | would smart |
| they | would smart |
Perfect
| I | would have smarted |
| you | would have smarted |
| he;she;it | would have smarted |
| we | would have smarted |
| you | would have smarted |
| they | would have smarted |
Imperative
| you | smart |
| we | Let's smart |
| you | smart |
Verbs conjugated like 'smart'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'smart'
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English smerten, from Old English *smeortan (“to smart”), from Proto-West Germanic *smertan, from Proto-Germanic *smertaną (“to hurt, ache”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)merd- (“to bite, sting”). Cognate with Scots smert, Dutch smarten, German schmerzen, Danish smerte, Swedish smärta. See: Middle English '
smerten', Proto-Germanic '
*smertaną', Scots '
smert', Dutch '
smarten', German, old spelling '
schmerzen', Danish '
smerte', Swedish '
smärta'.
Verbs referencing "smart"
Latin
mordeo, German, old spelling
schmerzen, German, Pennsylvania
schmatze.
Sample Sentences
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After being hit with a pitch, the batter exclaimed "Ouch, my arm smarts!"
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He moved convulsively, and as he did so, said, "I'll be quiet, Doctor. Tell them to take off the strait waistcoat. I have had a terrible dream, and it has left me so weak that I cannot move. What's wrong with my face? It feels all swollen, and it smarts dreadfully." [1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, Westminster [London]: Archibald Constable and Company, […], →OCLC:]
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When the thrashing stopped, Fina used the pipe to roll the first woman's corpse over. She bent down, feeling a curious distance between the sudden serenity in her mind and the actions of her limbs, and beat the flames off the jacket with her bare hands. They were sooty and smarting as she used them to pry the garment off the woman's slack shoulders, and threw it over her own. [2023 October 12, HarryBlank, “Fire in the Hole”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 22 May 2024:]
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A goad that […] smarts the flesh. [a. 1652, Thomas Adams, Faith’s Encouragement:]
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You think this cruel? take it for a rule, / No creature ſmarts ſo little as a Fool. [1735 January 13 (Gregorian calendar; indicated as 1734), [Alexander] Pope, An Epistle from Mr. Pope, to Dr. Arbuthnot, London: […] J[ohn] Wright for Lawton Gilliver […], →OCLC, page 5, lines 81–82:]
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He that is ſurety for a ſtranger ſhall ſmart for it. [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs 11:15:]
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Meanvvhile the Abate exulted in ſucceſsful vengeance, and the marquis ſmarted beneath the ſtings of diſappointment. [1790, [Ann Radcliffe], chapter XI, in A Sicilian Romance. […], volume II, London: […] T[homas] Hookham, […], →OCLC, page 85:]
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Tiresias. I say that you are living with your next of kin in unimagined shame.
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Oedipus. Do you think you can say such things and never smart for it?
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Tiresias. Yes, if there be strength in truth. [1928, W[illiam] B[utler] Yeats, Sophocles’ King Oedipus: A Version of the Modern Stage, London: Macmillan and Co., […], →OCLC:]