clever vs smart

clever

adj
  • Showing inventiveness or originality; witty. 

  • Mentally quick and resourceful. 

  • Skilled at achieving what one wants, especially via unusual methods. 

  • Nimble with hands or body; skillful; adept. 

  • Possessing magical abilities. 

  • Smart, intelligent, or witty; mentally quick or sharp. 

  • Quick to understand, learn, and devise or apply ideas; intelligent. 

  • Fit and healthy; free from fatigue or illness. 

smart

adj
  • Exhibiting social ability or cleverness. 

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

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

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

  • Sharp; keen; poignant. 

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

  • Sudden and intense. 

  • 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 clever and smart occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )