intelligent

CEFRA2

/ɪnˈtɛlɪd͡ʒənt/

adjective

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adjective
Able to learn, understand, and solve problems well.
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adjective
Extra detail
Characterized by thoughtful interaction.

Examples

She was far more intelligent than her sister.
The habits of highly intelligent people offer a clue as to how to do that.

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Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 5
Parts of speech: 1
Citations: 5
Synonyms: 5

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adjective

Extra meanings

Well thought-out, well considered.
Of high or especially quick cognitive capacity, bright.
Having at least a similar level of brain power to humankind.

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In context

Mary is both intelligent and kind.
My girlfriend and I had an intelligent conversation.
The engineer had a very intelligent design proposal for the new car.

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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.”
1927, F. E. Penny, chapter 5, in Pulling the Strings
Now, as all intelligents are doomed to pass probationary states, it is highly probable that many intelligents, long antecedent to the foundation of our world, may have tarnished their innocence; or worse, many may have by disobedience fallen.
1832, The Comparative Coincidence of Reason and Scripture, volume II, London: J[ohn] Hatchard and Son, […], page 253
Like many Russian intelligents, the Merežkovskijs, together with Filosofov and the young student Vladimir Zlobin, fled from Russia in 1919.
1972, Olga Matich, Paradox in the Religious Poetry of Zinaida Gippius, Wilhelm Fink, →ISBN, page 30
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.
2000, Nadieszda Kizenko, A Prodigal Saint: Father John of Kronstadt and the Russian People, The Pennsylvania State University Press, published 2003, →ISBN, page 248
Many Russian intelligents, in particular scientists, that already in tsarist times were “infected” by liberal and even socialist ideas found in the revolution and the societal structure that followed, with all its horrible features, positive sides.
2011, Evgenii L’vovich Feinberg, translated by Andrei Vladimirovich Leonidov, Physicists: Epoch and Personalities (History of Modern Physical Sciences; 4), World Scientific, →ISBN, page 43

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Origin

adjective

From Middle French intelligent, from Latin intellegēns (“discerning”), present active participle of intellegō (“understand, comprehend”), itself from inter (“between”) + legō (“choose, pick out, read”).

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adjective

She is a very blank student who always gets the highest grades in class.