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intelligent
[ in-tel-i-juhnt ]
adjective
- having good understanding or a high mental capacity; quick to comprehend, as persons or animals:
an intelligent student.
Synonyms: bright
Antonyms: stupid
- displaying or characterized by quickness of understanding, sound thought, or good judgment:
an intelligent reply.
Synonyms: smart, shrewd, discerning, apt, bright, alert, clever, astute
Antonyms: stupid
- having the faculty of reasoning and understanding; possessing intelligence:
intelligent beings in outer space.
- Computers. pertaining to the ability to do data processing locally; smart: Compare dumb ( def 8 ).
An intelligent terminal can edit input before transmission to a host computer.
- Archaic. having understanding or knowledge (usually followed by of ).
intelligent
/ ɪnˈtɛlɪdʒənt /
adjective
- having or indicating intelligence
- having high intelligence; clever
- indicating high intelligence; perceptive
an intelligent guess
- guided by reason; rational
- (of computerized functions) able to modify action in the light of ongoing events
- archaic.postpositivefoll byof having knowledge or information
they were intelligent of his whereabouts
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Derived Forms
- inˈtelligently, adverb
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Other Words From
- in·telli·gent·ly adverb
- hyper·in·telli·gent adjective
- hyper·in·telli·gent·ly adverb
- nonin·telli·gent adjective
- nonin·telli·gent·ly adverb
- prein·telli·gent adjective
- prein·telli·gent·ly adverb
- quasi-in·telli·gent adjective
- quasi-in·telli·gent·ly adverb
- semi-in·telli·gent adjective
- semi-in·telli·gent·ly adverb
- super·in·telli·gent adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of intelligent1
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Example Sentences
Governor Jindal seems like a good guy, intelligent, reasonable.
Vice President Jindal: “Here is a good, intelligent, and reasonable plan for legislative action.”
I thought he was very intelligent, very gentle, soft-spoken, precise.
That kind of spoiled naïveté seems inexcusable in a clearly intelligent author who is pushing 30.
Genuinely funny and intelligent and navel-gazing and strange, these parts might eventually add up to something truly big.
All our intelligent students will insist upon learning what they can of these discussions and forming opinions for themselves.
So intelligent were her methods that she doubtless had great influence in making the memory of his art enduring.
His dark, shining, almost too intelligent eyes looked at Nigel, and looked away.
With less intelligent children traces of this tendency to take pictorial representation for reality may appear as late as four.
He looks about thirty-five, has a clean-shaven intelligent face, and is dressed in a dark tweed suit.
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