smartly

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsmɑː(ɹ)tli/

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Adverb

smartly (comparative more smartly, superlative most smartly)

1. With a fine or fashionable appearance.

   smartly dressed

2. Quickly.
   • 1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter II (Burglary), page 378, column 1:

     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.

   • 1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London:

     He set smartly off towards the shops […]

3. Intelligently.