intelligent
//ɪnˈtɛlɪd͡ʒənt//
Forms
- Comparative
- more intelligent
- Superlative
- most intelligent
- Plural
- intelligents
Definitions
1.Of high or especially quick cognitive capacity, bright.
- 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.”
2.Well thought-out, well considered.
- The engineer had a very intelligent design proposal for the new car.
- The general devised an intelligent strategy for the southern campaign.
3.Characterized by thoughtful interaction.
- My girlfriend and I had an intelligent conversation.
4.Having at least a similar level of brain power to humankind.
- The hunt for extraterrestrial intelligent life continues.
1.A member of the intelligentsia; an intelligent person.
- 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.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #3493
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Antonyms
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”).