Intelligent

/ɪnˈtɛlɪd͡ʒənt/ · adjective

Meaning

Of high or especially quick cognitive capacity, bright..

Definitions by Sense

1. Of high or especially quick cognitive capacity, bright.
2. Well thought-out, well considered.
3. Characterized by thoughtful interaction.
4. Having at least a similar level of brain power to humankind.
5. (computing) Having an environment-sensing automatically-invoked built-in computer capability.
6. A member of the intelligentsia; an intelligent person.

Example Sentences

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.”

The engineer had a very intelligent design proposal for the new car.

The general devised an intelligent strategy for the southern campaign.

My girlfriend and I had an intelligent conversation.

The hunt for extraterrestrial intelligent life continues.

an intelligent network or keyboard

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.

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• more intelligent
• intelligenter
• most intelligent
• intelligentest
• entelligent
• intelligents

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