Pious vs Intelligent - What's the difference?
pious | intelligent |
Of or pertaining to piety, exhibiting piety, devout, godfearing.
* 2014, (Paul Salopek), Blessed. Cursed. Claimed. , National Geographic (December 2014)[http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text]
Of high or especially quick cognitive capacity, bright.
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Characterized by thoughtful interaction.
Having the same level of brain power as mankind.
Having an environment-sensing automatically-invoked built-in computer capability.
As adjectives the difference between pious and intelligent
is that pious is of or pertaining to piety, exhibiting piety, devout, godfearing while intelligent is of high or especially quick cognitive capacity, bright.pious
English
Adjective
(-)- Its male residents dress like crows: heavy black suits, black Borsalino hats, the old grandfathers hugely whiskered and the boys in peot, the curled sidelocks of the pious .
Usage notes
* Sometimes used pejoratively, in the sense of "mistaken" or "false" piety, as in "pious errors", "pious frauds".Synonyms
* reverent, reverential, dutiful, religious, devout, godlyAntonyms
* (of or pertaining to piety) impious, independent, profaneDerived terms
* piously * piousnessintelligent
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Alternative forms
* entelligentAdjective
(en-adj)F. E. Penny
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.”}}
