Past Tenses
website for synonyms, antonyms, verb conjugations and translations

smart as a tack synonyms

Trying to find another word for smart as a tack in English? No problem. Our thesaurus contains synonyms of smart as a tack in 40 different contexts. We have listed all the similar and related words for smart as a tack alphabetically.

  • astute
  • canny
  • clever
  • discerning
  • discriminating
  • incisive
  • ingenious
  • insightful
  • intense
  • intuitive
  • judicious
  • keen
  • observant
  • penetrating
  • perspicacious
  • piercing
  • adept
  • apt
  • artful
  • clean
  • clever
  • crack
  • crackerjack
  • cunning
  • cute
  • deft
  • dexterous
  • expert
  • foxy
  • good
  • handy
  • hot tamale
  • active
  • all ears
  • bright
  • cagey
  • careful
  • circumspect
  • clever
  • fast on the draw
  • good hands
  • heads up
  • heedful
  • hip
  • intelligent
  • jazzed
  • observant
  • on guard
  • applicable
  • apposite
  • appropriate
  • apropos
  • befitting
  • correct
  • felicitous
  • fit
  • fitting
  • germane
  • happy
  • just
  • pertinent
  • proper
  • relevant
  • seemly
  • adroit
  • brainy
  • bright
  • calculating
  • canny
  • clever
  • crafty
  • discerning
  • foxy
  • insightful
  • intelligent
  • keen
  • knowing
  • not born yesterday
  • on the ball
  • perspicacious
  • bright
  • brilliant
  • clever
  • intellectual
  • sapient
  • smart
  • ablaze
  • aglow
  • alight
  • argent
  • auroral
  • beaming
  • blazing
  • brilliant
  • burning
  • burnished
  • coruscating
  • dazzling
  • effulgent
  • flashing
  • fulgent
  • fulgid
  • ablaze
  • bright
  • clinquant
  • coruscating
  • dazzling
  • effulgent
  • flashy
  • fulgent
  • gleaming
  • glittering
  • glossy
  • incandescent
  • intense
  • lambent
  • lucent
  • luminous
  • able
  • acute
  • adroit
  • astute
  • cagey
  • careful
  • cautious
  • circumspect
  • cunning
  • dexterous
  • discreet
  • foxy
  • frugal
  • having fancy footwork
  • hep
  • ingenious
  • able
  • adept
  • adroit
  • alert
  • apt
  • astute
  • brainy
  • brilliant
  • cagey
  • canny
  • capable
  • competent
  • crackerjack
  • cunning
  • deep
  • dexterous/dextrous
  • analytical
  • belittling
  • biting
  • calumniatory
  • captious
  • carping
  • caviling
  • cavillous
  • censorious
  • censuring
  • choleric
  • condemning
  • critic
  • cutting
  • cynical
  • demanding
  • adorable
  • beautiful
  • charming
  • dainty
  • delightful
  • pleasant
  • pretty
  • acute
  • astute
  • bright
  • brilliant
  • clear-sighted
  • clever
  • critical
  • gnostic
  • ingenious
  • insighted
  • insightful
  • intelligent
  • judicious
  • knowing
  • knowledgeable
  • penetrating
  • acute
  • astute
  • careful
  • choicy
  • choosy
  • cultivated
  • discerning
  • distinctive
  • eclectic
  • fastidious
  • finical
  • finicky
  • fussy
  • individualizing
  • judicious
  • keen
  • PDQ
  • accelerated
  • active
  • agile
  • blue streak
  • breakneck
  • brisk
  • chop-chop
  • dashing
  • double-time
  • electric
  • expeditious
  • expeditive
  • flashing
  • fleet
  • fleeting
  • artful
  • astute
  • canny
  • crafty
  • cunning
  • deceitful
  • deep
  • devious
  • dishonest
  • experienced
  • guileful
  • insidious
  • intelligent
  • knowing
  • retiary
  • sharp
  • Einstein
  • acute
  • advanced
  • alert
  • astute
  • aware
  • brainy
  • brilliant
  • clear-headed
  • clever
  • discerning
  • eggheaded
  • ingenious
  • inventive
  • keen
  • knowing
  • able
  • adroit
  • artistic
  • bright
  • canny
  • crafty
  • creative
  • cunning
  • deviceful
  • dexterous
  • gifted
  • imaginative
  • innovational
  • innovative
  • innovatory
  • intelligent
  • able
  • acute
  • alert
  • alive
  • all there
  • apt
  • astute
  • brainy
  • bright
  • brilliant
  • calculating
  • capable
  • clever
  • comprehending
  • creative
  • deep
  • agog
  • alert
  • animate
  • animated
  • anxious
  • appetent
  • ardent
  • athirst
  • avid
  • breathless
  • devoted
  • dying to
  • eager
  • earnest
  • ebullient
  • fervent
  • alive
  • apprehensive
  • astute
  • awake
  • brainy
  • bright
  • brilliant
  • canny
  • clever
  • cognizant
  • competent
  • conscious
  • conversant
  • cool
  • crack
  • deliberate
  • active
  • adept
  • adroit
  • agile
  • alert
  • bright
  • brisk
  • clever
  • deft
  • handy
  • light
  • lissome
  • lithe
  • lively
  • proficient
  • prompt
  • accomplished
  • ace
  • adroit
  • brainy
  • capable
  • clean
  • crack
  • crackerjack
  • deft
  • dexterous
  • expert
  • hot
  • hotshot
  • know stuff
  • masterful
  • masterly
  • battle-scarred
  • been around
  • canny
  • cunning
  • on the ball
  • savvy
  • seasoned
  • trained
  • unbelieving
  • wise
  • worldly
  • advertent
  • alive
  • attentive
  • bright
  • clear-sighted
  • comprehending
  • considering
  • contemplating
  • correct
  • deducing
  • detecting
  • discerning
  • discovering
  • discriminating
  • eager
  • eagle-eyed
  • active
  • all ears
  • attentive
  • bright
  • cagey
  • careful
  • clever
  • good hands
  • heads up
  • intelligent
  • lively
  • observant
  • on guard
  • on one's toes
  • on the job
  • on the lookout
  • aboriginal
  • archetypal
  • authentic
  • autochthonous
  • beginning
  • commencing
  • early
  • elementary
  • embryonic
  • first
  • first-hand
  • genuine
  • inceptive
  • infant
  • initial
  • introductory
  • biting
  • carrying
  • clear-cut
  • crisp
  • cutting
  • edged
  • entering
  • forcing
  • going through
  • infiltrating
  • ingoing
  • intrusive
  • passing through
  • penetrant
  • permeating
  • pervasive
  • alert
  • astute
  • awake
  • aware
  • brainy
  • conscious
  • cute
  • discerning
  • ear to the ground
  • intelligent
  • intuitive
  • keen
  • knowing
  • knowledgeable
  • knows what's what
  • observant
  • ASAP
  • a move on
  • abrupt
  • accelerated
  • active
  • agile
  • alert
  • animated
  • breakneck
  • brief
  • brisk
  • cursory
  • curt
  • double time
  • energetic
  • expeditious
  • adept
  • apt
  • artful
  • clean
  • clever
  • crack
  • crackerjack
  • cunning
  • cute
  • deft
  • dexterous
  • expert
  • foxy
  • good
  • handy
  • hot tamale
  • adept
  • apt
  • artful
  • clean
  • clever
  • crack
  • crackerjack
  • cunning
  • cute
  • deft
  • dexterous
  • expert
  • foxy
  • good
  • handy
  • hot tamale
  • accessible
  • adjusted
  • all set
  • all systems go
  • anticipating
  • apt
  • arranged
  • at beck and call
  • at fingertips
  • at hand
  • at the ready
  • champing at bit
  • close to hand
  • completed
  • convenient
  • covered
  • able
  • active
  • adventurous
  • aggressive
  • bright
  • capable
  • clever
  • creative
  • enterprising
  • ingenious
  • intelligent
  • inventive
  • original
  • quick-witted
  • sharp
  • talented
  • acute
  • astute
  • brainy
  • cagey
  • calculating
  • canny
  • clever
  • crafty
  • cunning
  • discerning
  • experienced
  • farsighted
  • foxy
  • heady
  • in the know
  • ingenious
  • acute
  • cognizant
  • conscious
  • delicate
  • easily affected
  • emotionable
  • emotional
  • feeling
  • fine
  • high-strung
  • hung up
  • hypersensitive
  • impressible
  • irritable
  • keen
  • knowing
  • glossy
  • greasy
  • icy
  • lubricious
  • oily
  • oleaginous
  • shiny
  • sleek
  • sleeky
  • slippery
  • slithery
  • soapy
  • acute
  • adept
  • agile
  • alert
  • apt
  • astute
  • bold
  • brainy
  • bright
  • brilliant
  • brisk
  • canny
  • clever
  • crafty
  • effective
  • eggheaded
  • attenuate
  • attenuated
  • deep
  • discriminating
  • ethereal
  • exquisite
  • faint
  • fine
  • finespun
  • hairline
  • hairsplitting
  • illusive
  • implied
  • inconspicuous
  • indirect
  • indistinct
  • astute
  • aware
  • calculating
  • careful
  • clever
  • cogitative
  • contemplative
  • crafty
  • cunning
  • discerning
  • discreet
  • educated
  • enlightened
  • erudite
  • experienced
  • foresighted

PastTenses is a database of English verbs. One can check verbs forms in different tenses. Use our search box to check present tense, present participle tense, past tense and past participle tense of desired verb.

Past Tenses © 2020