simple vs smart

simple

adj
  • Feeble-minded; foolish. 

  • Consisting of a single individual or zooid; not compound. 

  • Consisting of one single substance; uncompounded. 

  • Undistinguished in social condition; of no special rank. 

  • Without ornamentation; plain. 

  • Free from duplicity; guileless, innocent, straightforward. 

  • Of a group: having no normal subgroup. 

  • Homogenous. 

  • Using steam only once in its cylinders, in contrast to a compound engine, where steam is used more than once in high-pressure and low-pressure cylinders. 

  • Not compound, but possibly lobed. 

  • Uncomplicated; taken by itself, with nothing added. 

noun
  • Part of the apparatus for raising the heddles of a drawloom. 

  • A herbal preparation made from one plant, as opposed to something made from more than one plant. 

  • A feast which is not a double or a semidouble. 

  • A drawloom. 

  • A simple or atomic proposition. 

smart

adj
  • Cleverly shrewd and humorous in a way that may be rude and disrespectful. 

  • Equipped with intelligent behaviour (digital/computer technology). 

  • Good-looking; well dressed; fine; fashionable. 

  • Sharp; keen; poignant. 

  • Exhibiting intellectual knowledge, such as that found in books. 

  • Sudden and intense. 

  • Exhibiting social ability or cleverness. 

  • Causing sharp pain; stinging. 

verb
  • To cause a smart or sting in. 

  • To feel a pungent pain of mind; to feel sharp pain or grief; be punished severely; to feel the sting of evil. 

  • To hurt or sting. 

noun
  • Smart-money. 

  • Mental pain or suffering; grief; affliction. 

  • A sharp, quick, lively pain; a sting. 

How often have the words simple and smart occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )