Unpretentious vs Imperious - What's the difference?
unpretentious | imperious |
Domineering, arrogant, or overbearing.
* 1866 – , translated by C. J. Hogarth
Urgent.
* 1891 –
(obsolete) Imperial or regal.
* 1895 –
As adjectives the difference between unpretentious and imperious
is that unpretentious is simple, humble, not pretentious, plain while imperious is domineering, arrogant, or overbearing.unpretentious
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* pretentiousDerived terms
* unpretentiously * unpretentiousnessimperious
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Adjective
(-)- ...she glanced about her in an imperious , challenging sort of way, with looks and gestures that clearly were unstudied.
- Circumstances of an imperious nature, which it is unnecessary to relate here, had prevented him from taking service with that gallant army which had fought the disastrous campaigns ending with the fall of Corinth.
- She was quick, beautiful, imperious , while he was quiet, slow, and misty.