Usually means: Boldly confident and attractively lively.
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We found 43 dictionaries that define the word pert:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. pert: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pert: Merriam-Webster
  3. PERT, PERT, pert, pert: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pert: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pert: Collins English Dictionary
  6. pert: Vocabulary.com
  7. Pert, pert: Wordnik
  8. pert: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. PERT, pert: Wiktionary
  10. pert: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. pert: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. pert: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. PERT, pert: Dictionary.com
  14. pert: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. pert: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. PERT, Pert: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Pert: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. pert: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. pert: Rhymezone
  20. Pert: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. pert: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. PERT: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. pert: FreeDictionary.org
  24. pert: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. pert: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. PERT: Glossary of research economics
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  3. PERT: Management Dictionary
  4. pert: Legal dictionary
  5. Glossary of Trade and Shipping Terms (No longer online)

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. PERT: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. PERT: Cybernetics and Systems
  3. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  4. PERT: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Pert: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. PERT: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. PERT: A Dictionary of Quaternary Acronyms and Abbreviations

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. P.E.R.T, Pert: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See pertly as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (of a person) Attractive.
adjective:  (of a part of the body) Well-formed; shapely.
adjective:  Lively; alert and cheerful; bright.
adjective:  (archaic) Especially of children or social inferiors: cheeky, impertinent.
adjective:  (obsolete) Open; evident; unhidden.
adjective:  (obsolete) Clever.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To behave with pertness; to misbehave.
noun:  (obsolete) An impudent person.
noun:  (operations) Acronym of program evaluation and review technique. [(operations) A method for diagramming and analyzing the flow of dependent tasks and other events in a project.]

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