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Webster 1913 Edition


Smartly

Smart′ly

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adv.
In a smart manner.

Webster 1828 Edition


Smartly

SM'ARTLY

,
adv.
1.
With keen pain; as, to ake smartly.
2.
Briskly; sharply; wittily.
3.
Vigorously; actively.

Definition 2024


smartly

smartly

English

Adverb

smartly (not comparable)

  1. In a smart manner.
    He was dressed smartly.
  2. Quickly.
    • 1914, Louis Joseph Vance, Nobody, chapter II:
      She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realising that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.
  3. Intelligently.