Shrew vs Intelligent - What's the difference?
shrew | intelligent |
Any of numerous small mouselike, chiefly nocturnal, mammals of the family Soricidae.
An ill-tempered, nagging woman: a scold.
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 a noun shrew
is any of numerous small mouselike, chiefly nocturnal, mammals of the family soricidae.As a verb shrew
is (obsolete|transitive) to beshrew; to curse.As an adjective intelligent is
of high or especially quick cognitive capacity, bright.shrew
English
Noun
(en noun)- You'd better not stay out late tonight — your mother is quite a shrew and you'll never hear the end of it.
Synonyms
* (mouselike mammal) ranny (obsolete)Hyponyms
* (mouselike mammal) common shrewDerived terms
* elephant shrew * Etruscan shrew * hardishrew * jumping shrew * Nelson's small-eared shrew * shrew-run * shrewd * shrewish * tree shrewintelligent
English
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.”}}
