smartish
adjective, adverb
smartish is an adjective meaning “Rather smart” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-M-A-R-T-I-S-H and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 91 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does smartish mean?
adjective
- 1
Rather smart
adverb
- 1
smartly
- 2
colloquialrapidly; without dawdling
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce smartish?
Smartish has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of smartish
- more smartish comparative
- most smartish superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is smartish?
Smartish appears about once in every 91 million words in written English, the 305,310th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does smartish come from?
From smart + -ish.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).