INTELLIGENT
Dictionary entry overview: What does intelligent mean?
• INTELLIGENT (adjective)
The adjective INTELLIGENT has 4 senses:
1. having the capacity for thought and reason especially to a high degree
2. possessing sound knowledge
3. exercising or showing good judgment
4. endowed with the capacity to reason
Familiarity information: INTELLIGENT used as an adjective is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• INTELLIGENT (adjective)
Meaning:
Having the capacity for thought and reason especially to a high degree
Context examples:
is there intelligent life in the universe? / an intelligent question
Similar:
quick; ready (apprehending and responding with speed and sensitivity)
scintillating (brilliantly clever)
prehensile (having a keen intellect)
born; innate; natural (being talented through inherited qualities)
bright; smart (characterized by quickness and ease in learning)
brainy; brilliant; smart as a whip (having or marked by unusual and impressive intelligence)
apt; clever (mentally quick and resourceful)
alert (mentally responsive)
agile; nimble (mentally quick)
searching; trenchant (having keenness and forcefulness and penetration in thought, expression, or intellect)
Also:
precocious (characterized by or characteristic of exceptionally early development or maturity (especially in mental aptitude))
smart (showing mental alertness and calculation and resourcefulness)
Attribute:
intelligence (the ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience)
Antonym:
unintelligent (lacking intelligence)
Meaning:
Possessing sound knowledge
Synonyms:
well-informed; intelligent
Context example:
well-informed readers
Similar:
sophisticated (having or appealing to those having worldly knowledge and refinement and savoir-faire)
Meaning:
Exercising or showing good judgment
Synonyms:
levelheaded; level-headed; sound; intelligent; healthy
Context examples:
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 sound explanation for his decision
Similar:
reasonable; sensible (showing reason or sound judgment)
Meaning:
Endowed with the capacity to reason
Synonyms:
reasoning; thinking; intelligent
Similar:
rational (consistent with or based on or using reason)
