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Conscientious vs Intelligent - What's the difference?

conscientious | intelligent |

As adjectives the difference between conscientious and intelligent

is that conscientious is thorough, careful, or vigilant; implies a desire to do a task well while intelligent is of high or especially quick cognitive capacity, bright.

conscientious

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Thorough, careful, or vigilant; implies a desire to do a task well.
    • He was a thoughtful and conscientious worker.

    Antonyms

    * capricious * impulsive

    Derived terms

    * conscientiously * conscientiousness * conscientious objector

    Related terms

    * conscience

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    intelligent

    English

    Alternative forms

    * entelligent

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Of high or especially quick cognitive capacity, bright.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1927, author= F. E. Penny
    • , chapter=5, title= Pulling the Strings , passage=Anstruther laughed good-naturedly. “[…] I shall take out half a dozen intelligent maistries from our Press and get them to give our villagers instruction when they begin work and when they are in the fields.”}}
  • Well thought-out, well considered.
  • Characterized by thoughtful interaction.
  • Having the same level of brain power as mankind.
  • Having an environment-sensing automatically-invoked built-in computer capability.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Antonyms

    * stupid