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Buoyant vs Smug - What's the difference?

buoyant | smug |

As adjectives the difference between buoyant and smug

is that buoyant is having buoyancy; able to float while smug is irritatingly pleased with oneself; self-satisfied.

As a verb smug is

(obsolete|transitive) to make smug, or spruce.

buoyant

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • having buoyancy; able to float
  • lighthearted and lively
    • I’m in a buoyant mood.

    Related terms

    * buoyancy * buoy * buoy up * buoying

    See also

    * Archimedes' principle

    smug

    English

    Adjective

    (smugger)
  • Irritatingly pleased with oneself; self-satisfied.
    • Kate looked extremely smug this morning.
  • (obsolete) Studiously neat or nice, especially in dress; spruce; affectedly precise; smooth and prim.
  • * Robynson (More's Utopia)
    • They be so smug and smooth.
  • * De Quincey
    • the smug and scanty draperies of his style
  • * Beaumont and Fletcher
    • A young, smug , handsome holiness has no fellow.

    Synonyms

    * self-satisfied * complacent

    Derived terms

    * smugly * smugness

    Verb

    (smugg)
  • (obsolete) To make smug, or spruce.
  • * Dryton
    • Thus said, he smugged his beard, and stroked up fair.
    (Webster 1913)

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