intelligent
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Middle French intelligent, from Latin intellegēns (“discerning”), present active participle of intellegō (“understand, comprehend”), itself from inter (“between”) + legō (“choose, pick out, read”).
Inflected forms:
form: more intelligent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: intelligenter
pos: adj
tags: comparative
proscribed
rare
form: most intelligent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: intelligentest
pos: adj
tags: proscribed
rare
superlative
form: entelligent
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: intelligents
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: entelligent
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of high or especially quick cognitive capacity, bright.
pos: adj
examples: Anstruther laughed good-naturedly. “[…] I shall take out half a dozen intelligent maistries from our Press and get them to give our villagers instruction when they begin work and when they are in the fields.”
gloss: Well thought-out, well considered.
pos: adj
examples: The engineer had a very intelligent design proposal for the new car.
The general devised an intelligent strategy for the southern campaign.
gloss: Characterized by thoughtful interaction.
pos: adj
examples: My girlfriend and I had an intelligent conversation.
gloss: Having at least a similar level of brain power to humankind.
pos: adj
examples: The hunt for extraterrestrial intelligent life continues.
gloss: Having an environment-sensing automatically-invoked built-in computer capability.
pos: adj
examples: an intelligent network or keyboard
gloss: A member of the intelligentsia; an intelligent person.
pos: noun
examples: Now, as all intelligents are doomed to pass probationary states, it is highly probable that many intelligents, long antecedent to the foundation of our world, may have tarnished their innocence; or worse, many may have by disobedience fallen.
Like many Russian intelligents, the Merežkovskijs, together with Filosofov and the young student Vladimir Zlobin, fled from Russia in 1919.
But if you fall away from your faith, as many intelligents have fallen away, then you will no longer be Russia or Holy Rus’, but a rabble of all kinds of other faiths who wish to destroy one another.
Many Russian intelligents, in particular scientists, that already in tsarist times were “infected” by liberal and even socialist ideas found in the revolution and the societal structure that followed, with all its horrible features, positive sides.
Synonyms: astute
brainy
bright
brilliant
clever
educated
genius
gifted
ingenious
intellectual
intelligent
keen
knowledgeable
piquant
quick
quick on the uptake
quick-witted
rational
sagacious
savvy
scholared
sharp
smart
talented
whip-smart
wise
Antonyms: stupid
dumb
unintelligent
Related words: like a duck takes to water
intelligence
learned
wily
witty
Derived words: artificially intelligent
general intelligent action
hyperintelligent
intelligent agent
intelligent character recognition
intelligent dance music
intelligent design
intelligent designer
intelligent designism
intelligent disobedience
intelligent falling
intelligent guess
intelligent haunting
intelligentization
intelligentness
intelligent system
intelligent terminal
intelligent transportation system
nonintelligent
superintelligent
ultraintelligent
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