right smart is an adjective and adverb meaning "(Southern or Midland) considerable". It carries 2 recorded senses.
to a great degree or by a great distance; very much (`right smart' is regional in the United States)
“way over budget”
“way off base”
“the other side of the hill is right smart steeper than the side we are on”
colloquialism
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for right smart come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.