About The Word Intelligent
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Intelligent
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What's The Definition Of Intelligent?
[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" Synonyms | Synonyms for Intelligent: 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 Related Terms | Find terms related to Intelligent: 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 See Also | precocious Intelligent In Webster's Dictionary \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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