intelligent.
Of high or especially quick cognitive capacity, bright.
Meaning & usage
Of high or especially quick cognitive capacity, bright.
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.
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
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *-tér Proto-Indo-European *h₁n̥tér Proto-Italic *n̥ter Latin inter Latin inter- Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *léǵeti Proto-Italic *legō Latin legō? Proto-Indo-European *h₂leg- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *h₂légeti Proto-Italic *legō? Latin intelligō Latin intelligēns Middle French intelligent English intelligent From Middle French intelligent, from Latin intellegēns (“discerning”), present active participle of intellegō (“understand, comprehend”), itself from inter (“between”) + legō (“choose, pick out, read”).
A member of the intelligentsia; an intelligent person.
Where this word comes from
Partly from Russian интеллиге́нт (intelligént) and partly from the adjective.
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