Meaning of INTELLIGENT
| Pronunciation: | | in'telijunt
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- [adj] having the capacity for thought and reason especially to a high degree; "is there intelligent life in the universe?"; "an intelligent question"
- [adj] endowed with the capacity to reason
- [adj] exercising or showing good judgment; "healthy scepticism"; "a healthy fear of rattlesnakes"; "the healthy attitude of French laws"; "healthy relations between labor and management"; "an intelligent solution"; "a sound approach to the problem";"sound advice"; "no reasonable explanation for his decision"
- [adj] possessing sound knowledge; "well-informed readers"
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| | Synonyms: | | agile, alert, apt, born(p), brainy, bright, brilliant, clever, healthy, incisive, innate(p), keen, levelheaded, natural, nimble, prehensile, quick, rational, ready, reasonable, reasoning(a), scintillating, searching, sensible, sharp, smart, smart as a whip, sophisticated, sound, thinking(a), trenchant, well-informed |
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| | Antonyms: | | stupid, unintelligent | | |
| | See Also: | | precocious | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \In*tel"li*gent\, a. [L. intelligens, intellegens,
-entis, p. pr. of intelligere, intellegere, to perceive;
inter between + legere to gather, collect, choose: cf. F.
intelligent. See {Legend}.]
1. Endowed with the faculty of understanding or reason; as,
man is an intelligent being.
2. Possessed of intelligence, education, or judgment;
knowing; sensible; skilled; marked by intelligence; as, an
intelligent young man; an intelligent architect; an
intelligent answer.
3. Gognizant; aware; communicate. [Obs.]
Intelligent of seasons. --Milton.
Which are to France the spies and speculations
Intelligent of our state. --Shak.
Syn: Sensible; understanding. See {Sensible}.
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| | Related Terms: | | acute, adroit, alert, all-knowing, apperceptive, appercipient, apprehending, apprehensive, apt, astute, au fait, aware, brainy, bright, brilliant, canny, cerebral, clever, cognizant, comprehending, conceptive, conceptual, conscious, consequent, cunning, discerning, discursive, docile, educable, endopsychic, enlightened, erudite, facile, formable, gifted, ideational, impressionable, ingenious, insightful, instructable, intellectual, internal, keen, knowing, knowledgeable, logical, malleable, mental, mindful, moldable, motivated, noetic, noological, not so dumb, omniscient, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, phrenic, plastic, pliable, prehensile, psychic, psychologic, quick, quick-witted, rational, ready, reasonable, reasoning, receptive, ripe for instruction, sagacious, sage, sane, savvy, schoolable, sensible, sharp, shrewd, smart, sophic, sound, spiritual, strong-minded, subjective, susceptible, teachable, thinking, thirsty for knowledge, trainable, understanding, willing, wise |
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