📖 Definitions of "Smarting"
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To hurt or sting.
"After being hit with a pitch, the batter exclaimed "Ouch, my arm smarts!""
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To cause a smart or sting in.
- 3
To feel a pungent pain of mind; to feel sharp pain or grief; be punished severely; to feel the sting of evil.
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A sensation that smarts or stings.
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Painful, sore.
"My arm is still smarting from where the ball hit it."
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Experiencing emotional pain or embarrassment.
🔄 Synonyms of "Smarting"
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💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Smarting"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| painful | Causing pain or distress, either physical or mental. |
| sore | Causing pain or discomfort; painfully sensitive. |
| snellnoun | A short line of horsehair, gut, monofilament, etc., by which a fishhook or lure is attached to a longer (and usually heavier) line. |
| tendernoun | The inner flight muscle (pectoralis minor) of poultry. |
| bitter | Having an acrid taste (usually from a basic substance). |
| hurtnoun | An emotional or psychological humiliation or bad experience. |
| smartful | (obsolete) painful |
| prickynoun | Stiff and sharp; prickly. |
| painlikenoun | Resembling pain. |
| irritating | Causing irritation, annoyance or pain. |
| stinging | Having the capacity to sting. |
| painsome | Indicating or marked by pain; painful |
| naggingnoun | The action of the verb nag. |
| woundsome | Causing, resembling, or indicating a wound or injury; hurtful; painful. |
| senticous | Prickly, thorny. |
| pinchynoun | (informal) slightly painful, akin to being pinched |
| itchy | Feeling an itching sensation; feeling a need to be scratched. (of a person, animal or body part) |
| piquant | Favorably stimulating to the palate; pleasantly spicy; tangy. |
| scratchy | (chiefly of a sore throat) Irritating; itchy. |
| frettynoun | Inclined to fret, agitated, worrying. |
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