intelligent
81
2.7
- adjective
- /ɪnˈtɛlɪdʒənt/
- US
:
sensato
- It's nice to have an intelligent conversation like this from time to time.
- an intelligent decision
- an intelligent choice
- informed and intelligent
Sometimes those kind of pointed intelligent attacks are the best.
- Sometimes those kind of pointed intelligent attacks are the best.
- It's now time to rise and do it in an intelligent manner, peacefully.
- You're also going to ask more intelligent questions.
- So it might be a very strategic and intelligent thing he's doing here, You know?
- Just top top real intelligent great decision making performances.
- Well, not intelligent, but it has an abstraction for motion.
Examples
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The point is, we must get together to do something intelligent about this.
Academic text (1993) -
Despite his limited formal education, Hun Sen is intelligent, a clever political operative, and a quick study.
Academic text (2002) -
I have to, like, answer an intelligent and kind of complex question.
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Do we have any intelligent questions before we get started?
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We are capable of making intelligent, rational decisions.
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I think he's desperate for someone intelligent, someone who can speak to him on his own level.
Fiction book (2001) -
Only with the results of such evaluations can we make informed, intelligent choices about public health policy.
Academic text (1995) -
Democracies, he said, survived through the responsible and intelligent election of representatives.
Academic text (2001) -
Mrs. Keane, you seem to be a lucid, reasonably intelligent woman.
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She is an intelligent student who consistently makes good choices in her studies.
Synonyms
∞
1.9
Shows quick thinking and good understanding
949
3.7
Very clever and skilled at thinking or solving problems
758
2.1
Showing good judgment from experience
573
1.7
Understands things quickly and finds smart solutions
201
2.7
Showing good judgment and making practical choices
100
3.9
Able to think clearly and make good choices
21
3.9
Very smart in a way that others notice
5
4.1
Very intelligent and quick to solve problems
5
7.0
Very quick to understand things and find answers
3
4.2
Able to think clearly, stay calm, and make good decisions in difficult situations
1
9.9
Showing deep wisdom and good sense about people and life
Antonyms
Compounds
- Literature
A joke idea that a higher being makes things fall to mock explanations that are not scientific
How Wise
Surface Forms
Morphology
intelligent = intelligence (transparent) = intelligence + ent
Meaning (showing sound judgment or reasoning) is a direct adjectival derivation from 'intelligence'; learners can infer the quality from the noun.
Etymology
Intelligent comes from the Latin intelligere, made from inter- 'between' and legere 'pick', a root you also see in select. So an intelligent decision is one that 'picks' the best choice and shows good judgment.