smartly

English

Etymology

smart +‎ -ly

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsmɑː(ɹ)tli/

• Audio (Southern England)

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Adverb

smartly (not comparable)

1. In a smart manner.

   He was dressed smartly.

2. Quickly.
   • 1914, Louis Joseph Vance, chapter II, in Nobody, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, published 1915, →OCLC:

     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.