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Smartly

//ˈsmɑː(ɹ)tli// adv

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In a smart manner. not-comparable

    "smartly dressed"

  2. 2
    Quickly. not-comparable

    "She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realizing that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky."

  3. 3
    Intelligently. not-comparable
Adverb
  1. 1
    in a smart manner wordnet
  2. 2
    with vigor; in a vigorous manner wordnet
  3. 3
    in a clever manner wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English smertly; equivalent to smart + -ly.

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