Antonyms for smartnesssmart·ness

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. smartness

   Liveliness and sprightliness are pleasant and commendable; smartness is a limited and showy acuteness or shrewdness, usually with unfavorable suggestion; pertness and sauciness are these qualities overdone, and regardless of the respect due to superiors. Impertinence and impudence may be gross and stupid; pertness and sauciness are always vivid and keen. Compare IMPUDENCE.

   Antonyms:
   bashfulness, demureness, diffidence, humility, modesty, shyness

   Synonyms:
   boldness, briskness, flippancy, forwardness, impertinence, impudence, liveliness, pertness, sauciness, sprightliness

Matched Categories

1. • Intelligence
   • Liveliness
   • Pain

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:3.0 / 1 vote

1. smart, smarting, smartnessnoun

   a kind of pain such as that caused by a wound or a burn or a sore

   Synonyms:
   smart, stylishness, last word, alacrity, chichi, chicness, brightness, cleverness, chic, smarting, swank, modishness, briskness

2. brightness, cleverness, smartnessnoun

   intelligence as manifested in being quick and witty

   Synonyms:
   swank, smart, ingenuity, chichi, alacrity, brightness level, chic, last word, briskness, inventiveness, luminosity, cleverness, stylishness, smarting, luminousness, luminance, light, brightness, chicness, modishness, ingeniousness

3. chic, chicness, chichi, modishness, smartness, stylishness, swank, last wordnoun

   elegance by virtue of being fashionable

   Synonyms:
   smart, stylishness, last word, alacrity, chichi, chicness, brightness, cleverness, chic, smarting, swank, modishness, briskness

4. alacrity, briskness, smartnessnoun

   liveliness and eagerness

   "he accepted with alacrity"; "the smartness of the pace soon exhausted him"

   Synonyms:
   smart, stylishness, alacrity, chichi, chicness, last word, brightness, briskness, chic, smarting, swank, modishness, cleverness

How to use smartness in a sentence?

1. George Burns:

   Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.

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