intelligent
adjEtymology
From Middle French intelligent, from Latin intellegēns (“discerning”), present active participle of intellegō (“understand, comprehend”), itself from inter (“between”) + legō (“choose, pick out, read”).
- derived from intelligens
- derived from intelligent
Definitions
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.”
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.
Characterized by thoughtful interaction.
- My girlfriend and I had an intelligent conversation.
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Having at least a similar level of brain power to humankind.
- The hunt for extraterrestrial intelligent life continues.
Having an environment-sensing automatically-invoked built-in computer capability.
- an intelligent network or keyboard
A member of the intelligentsia
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.
The neighborhood
- synonymastute
- synonymbrainy
- synonymbright
- synonymbrilliant
- synonymclever
- synonymeducated
- synonymgenius
- synonymgifted
- synonymingenious
- synonymintellectual
- synonymintelligent
- synonymkeen
- antonymstupid
- antonymdumb
- antonymunintelligent
- neighborlike a duck takes to water
- neighborintelligence
- neighborlearned
- neighborwily
- neighborwitty
- neighboroverclever
Derived
artificially intelligent, general intelligent action, hyperintelligent, intelligent agent, intelligent character recognition, intelligent dance music, intelligent design, intelligent designer, intelligent designism, intelligent disobedience, intelligent falling, intelligent guess, intelligent haunting, intelligentization, intelligentness, intelligent system, intelligent terminal, intelligent transportation system, nonintelligent, superintelligent, ultraintelligent
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at intelligent. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at intelligent. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
10 hops · closes at intelligent
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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