If "potential" is "having or showing the capacity to become or develop into something in the future"; then *Pretential* is the *potential to have potential*.
Example; If you study well, you have POTENTIAL.
If you aren't bothering to study, but you have the right teachers, books, notes, etc.; then you have PRETENTIAL
Person 1: You've got a great teacher, the textbook's got all the information, and you have every other possible tool you could need! You've just got so much potential!
Person 2: I don't have potential, I'm not studying yet!
Person 1: Yes you do...
Person 2: No, I only have *PREtential*
but this word could be used in any context :P
If you aren't bothering to study, but you have the right teachers, books, notes, etc.; then you have PRETENTIAL
Person 1: You've got a great teacher, the textbook's got all the information, and you have every other possible tool you could need! You've just got so much potential!
Person 2: I don't have potential, I'm not studying yet!
Person 1: Yes you do...
Person 2: No, I only have *PREtential*
but this word could be used in any context :P
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2. The degree of desire a person has to make a pass, hit on, or pick up a female.
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An older woman who looks as if she would have been attractive when she was younger.
Much like a younger girl may have potential (definition 3) to be attractive when she's older.
Much like a younger girl may have potential (definition 3) to be attractive when she's older.
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Da kid who "wants a hippopotamus for Christmas" should consider da "petential" for said huge lumbering herbivore in TWO different aspects --- first, whether he would truly want dat big or heavy an animal around all da time, and second, whether said behemoth would actually wanna be "PETted" to any degree --- they're wild animals who have a tendency to spook easily and be aggressive. So perhaps a somewhat-smaller and less-unpredictable mammal would be better suited for said young four-footed-friend lover, like maybe a goat or donkey.
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(adv.)
1. When something might possibly happen by random chance, but also feels kinda likely.
• A cursed hybrid of perchance and potentially.
• Used when you’re too lazy (or too chaotic) to pick just one.
(adv.)
1. When something might possibly happen by random chance, but also feels kinda likely.
• A cursed hybrid of perchance and potentially.
• Used when you’re too lazy (or too chaotic) to pick just one.
• “I’ll pertentially show up to the party if my vibe check passes.”
• “That text was pertentially about you, but who really knows.”
• “That text was pertentially about you, but who really knows.”
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