Pretentious vs Intelligent - What's the difference?
pretentious | intelligent |
Marked by an unwarranted claim to importance or distinction.
Ostentatious; intended to impress others.
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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 pretentious and intelligent
is that pretentious is marked by an unwarranted claim to importance or distinction while intelligent is of high or especially quick cognitive capacity, bright.pretentious
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(en adjective)- Their song titles are pretentious in the context of their basic lyrics.
- Her dress was obviously more pretentious than comfortable.
Synonyms
* poseur * See alsoAntonyms
* unpretentiousDerived terms
* pretentiously * pretentiousnessReferences
intelligent
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* 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.”}}