Snob vs. Pretentious — What's the Difference?

Snob is a pejorative term for a person who believes there is a correlation between social status (including physical appearance) and human worth. Snob also refers to a person who feels superiority over those from lower social classes, education levels, or other social areas.

Attempting to impress by affecting greater importance or merit than is actually possessed

A person who looks down on or snubs people who that person considers as being of a lower social class.

Claiming that or behaving as if one is important or deserving of merit when such is not the case

A person who feels an undue sense of intellectual or aesthetic superiority

Showing or betraying an attitude of superiority

A person who wishes to be seen as a member of the upper classes and who looks down on those perceived to have inferior or unrefined tastes.

Marked by an extravagant or presumptuous outward show; ostentatious

(colloquial) A cobbler or shoemaker.

Intended to impress others.

(dated) A member of the lower classes; a commoner.

Marked by an unwarranted claim to importance or distinction.

(archaic) A workman who works for lower wages than his fellows, especially one who will not join a strike (a scab#Noun).

Full of pretension; disposed to lay claim to more than is one's; presuming; assuming.

(Cambridge University) A townsman, as opposed to a gownsman.

Making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction;

A vulgar person who affects to be better, richer, or more fashionable, than he really is; a vulgar upstart; one who apes his superiors.

Intended to attract notice and impress others;

A townsman.

Of a display that is tawdry or vulgar

A journeyman shoemaker.

A workman who accepts lower than the usual wages, or who refuses to strike when his fellows do; a rat; a knobstick.

A person regarded as arrogant and annoying