English Explanatory Dictionary

pert

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Attractive.
  2. Well-formed; shapely.
  3. Lively; alert and cheerful; bright.
  4. Especially of children or social inferiors: cheeky, impertinent.
  5. Open; evident; unhidden.
  6. Clever.
verb
  1. To behave with pertness; to misbehave.
noun
  1. An impudent person.
noun
  1. Acronym of program evaluation and review technique.

Pronunciation

/pɜːt/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Mélange a trois-pert.wav /pɝt/

Word forms

pert perter pertest perts perting perted

Etymology

From Middle English pert, perte, aphetic form of apert.

Synonyms

saucy audacious bold get wise bold-faced bold as brass brassy brazen brazen-faced cheeky chutzpadik cocket cute dicacious facey familiar flippant flip forward fresh impious impudent impertinent insolent irreverent malapert pert petulant sassy

Derived words

overpert pert as a pearmonger pertish pertly pertness sea-pert PERT chart

Translations

Bulgarian: устат Bulgarian: нахален Chinese Mandarin: 无礼的 Chinese Mandarin: 無禮 /无礼 Czech: troufalý Czech: smělý Czech: odvážný Czech: drzý French: impertinent German: keck German: frech Hungarian: pimasz Hungarian: hetyke Hungarian: szemtelen Italian: impertinente Latin: procax Plautdietsch: frajch Russian: де́рзкий Russian: на́глый Russian: наха́льный Swedish: käck Swedish: fräck
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