smartly

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
13
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ˈsmɑː(ɹ)tli/

Definition of smartly

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adv

  1. With a fine or fashionable appearance.
    “smartly dressed”
See all 3 definitions

adv

  1. With a fine or fashionable appearance.
    “smartly dressed”
  2. Quickly.
    “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.”
    “He set smartly off towards the shops […]”
  3. Intelligently.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

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

Find your best play with smartly

See every word you can make from a set of letters that includes smartly, or browse word lists you can mine for high-scoring plays.