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semi-intelligent

  • a word derived from intelligent.
    intelligent
    adjective
    having good understanding or a high mental capacity; quick to comprehend, as persons or animals.

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Humans may prove all too willing to give semi-intelligent machines the keys to the kingdom.

From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2021

Similarly, Sir Timothy Gowers, at Cambridge University, expects collaboration with a "semi-intelligent database" to "take a great deal of the drudgery out of research."

From Slate ● Mar. 23, 2015

She has a cousin in the household, an offensive, semi-intelligent fellow with a lot of vaguely Marxian conceptions.

From Time Magazine Archive

In denizens of the greater metropolis where journalistic criticism has reached the semi-intelligent stage this upturning of intellectual noses is comprehensible.

From Time Magazine Archive

They are beautifully constructed, semi-intelligent robots exploring unknown worlds.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan