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What is the adjective for smarting?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs smart, smarten and smartle which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

smart
  1. Causing sharp pain; stinging.
  2. Sharp; keen; poignant.
  3. Exhibiting social ability or cleverness.
  4. Exhibiting intellectual knowledge, such as that found in books.
  5. (often in combination) Equipped with digital/computer technology.
  6. Good-looking.
  7. Cleverly shrewd and humorous in a way that may be rude and disrespectful.
  8. Sudden and intense.
  9. (US, Southern, dated) Intense in feeling; painful. Used usually with the adverb intensifier right.
  10. (archaic) Efficient; vigorous; brilliant.
  11. (archaic) Pretentious; showy; spruce.
  12. (archaic) Brisk; fresh.
  13. Synonyms:
      14. bright, intelligent, astute, clever, sharp, wise, brainy, brilliant, precocious, savvy, canny, crafty, ingenious, sage, acute, cluey, genius, keen, knowing, knowledgeable, perceptive, percipient, resourceful, shrewd, streetwise, alert, discerning, educated, erudite, exceptional, genial, learned, nimble-witted, quick on the uptake, quick-witted, scholarly, sharp-witted, well educated, well read, whiz, witty, on the ball, well-read, whip-smart, quick, perspicacious, gifted, able, insightful, penetrating … more
  14. Examples:
      15. “I always knew you would be successful because you were always a smart kid.”
      “Please make sure you get a good suit so you can look smart for your sister's wedding.”
      “He decided to wear his smart blue suede shoes to the party.”
smarting
  1. Painful, sore.
  2. (figuratively) Experiencing emotional pain or embarrassment.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. painful, stinging, sore, hurting, aching, throbbing, piercing, sharp, raw, biting, tender, excruciating, afflictive, sensitive, inflamed, burning, agonising, agonizing, severe, achy, irritated, troublesome, caustic, prickly, tingly, hurtful, keen, uncomfortable, vexatious, hurt, bruised, injured, wounded, red, nasty, reddened, searing, shooting, in pain, acute, stabbing, chafed, pained, harrowing, tingling, distressing, nagging, grievous, intense, afflicted … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “He dipped the cloth gingerly into the cold water in the basin and applied it to his smarting face.”
smartish
  1. Rather smart
smarter
  1. comparative form of smart: more smart
  2. Synonyms:
      3. better, more sensible, shrewder, wiser, better-informed, more informed, more insightful, more judicious, more perceptive, more prudent, more rational, more thoughtful, more intelligent, more intuitive, more knowledgeable, more learned, more reasonable, more reflective, astuter, more careful, more discerning, more educated, more enlightened, more knowing, more tactful, sharper, craftier, keener, more aware, more calculating, more cogitative, more contemplative, more cunning, more devious, more erudite, more perspicacious, more sagacious, more sapient, more scholarly, more understanding, sager, slier, cleverer, more artful, more discreet, more experienced, more foresighted, saner, sounder, warier … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “All my friends and regular acquaintances are smarter than me on all sorts of different levels.”
      “The more people, and the more diverse they are, the better and smarter we'll all be.”
      “They could argue about who was smarter, who the teachers liked best, anything from A to Z they could argue about.”
smartest
  1. superlative form of smart: most smart
  2. Synonyms:
      3. good, stylish, contemporary, dapper, dressy, fashionable, hip, sexy, smart, trendy, a la mode, all the rage, chic, chichi, cool, current, dashing, designer, faddy, favored, favoured, finest, fly, formal, genteel, happening, hot, in, in style, in-thing, in vogue, latest, modern, modish, natty, new, newest, newfangled, nice, nicest, now, party, popular, prevailing, rakish, snazzy, styleworthy, Sunday, swank, swanky … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Meanwhile, organic food has gone from farmers' markets to delis in west London, with organic supermarkets in the smartest parts of town.”
      “Bad mouthing the Germans in mid-bid probably wasn't the smartest piece of international diplomacy.”
      “In this fractionalized viewing world, it's the smartest thing a television executive can do.”
smarted
  1. simple past tense and past participle of smart
  2. Synonyms:
      3. ached, oke, aken, hurt, stung, throbbed, chafed, prickled, tingled, burned, burnt, pained, pricked, bit, bitten, pounded, twinged, suffered, seethed, sodden, fumed, stewed, fretted, felt aggrieved, felt annoyed, felt hurt, felt indignant, felt offended, felt put out, felt resentful, felt upset, felt wounded, fussed, took offence, taken offence, took offense, taken offense, boiled, simmered, steamed, worried oneself … more
smartened
  1. simple past tense and past participle of smarten
  2. Synonyms:
      3. developed, elevated, improved, advanced, bettered, boosted, progressed, upgraded, enhanced, expanded, lifted, perfected, raised, augmented, fostered, improved on, refined, ameliorated, built, increased, polished, stepped up, beefed up, brushed up, built on, built up, fast-tracked, fine-tuned, fortified, furthered, grew, heightened, intensified, magnified, promoted, prospered, reenforced, reinforced, scaled up, shaped up, smartened up, straightened out, strengthened, supplemented, touched up, updated, uplifted, worked up, amplified, compounded … more
smartening
  1. present participle of smarten
  2. Synonyms:
      3. tidying, neatening, fixing, redecorating, refurbishing, beautifying, modernising, modernizing, debugging, doctoring, sorting, sprucing, tidying up, sprucing up, cleaning up, putting in order, fixing up, making neater, tarting up, brightening up, doing up, face-lifting, making smarter, making tidy, dolling up, fiddling with, gussying up, jazzing up, seeing to, tuning up, putting to rights, grooming, preening, primping, prinking, titivating, pluming, trigging, beautifying oneself, grooming oneself, preening oneself, primping oneself, prettying, prettying oneself, pluming oneself, prinking oneself, titivating oneself … more
smartling
  1. present participle of smartle
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