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Shiny vs Intelligent - What's the difference?

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Shiny is a related term of intelligent.


As adjectives the difference between shiny and intelligent

is that shiny is reflecting light while intelligent is of high or especially quick cognitive capacity, bright.

As a noun shiny

is (informal) anything shiny; a trinket.

shiny

English

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • Reflecting light.
  • * :
  • Bender: Bite my shiny metal ass!
  • Emitting light.
  • (colloquial) Excellent; remarkable.
  • (obsolete) Bright; luminous; clear; unclouded.
  • * (rfdate) (Dryden)
  • Like distant thunder on a shiny day.
  • * The Lincolnshire Poacher (traditional song)
  • When I was bound apprentice in famous Lincolnshire
    Full well I served my master for nigh on seven years
    Till I took up to poaching as you shall quickly hear
    Oh, 'tis my delight on a shiny night in the season of the year.

    Derived terms

    * shininess

    Noun

    (shinies)
  • (informal) Anything shiny; a trinket.
  • 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