Definitions for intelligent

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intelligent in·tel·li·gent

Spelling: [in-tel-i-juh nt]

IPA: /ɪnˈtɛl ɪ dʒənt/

Intelligent is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 218 anagrams from letters in intelligent (eegiillnntt).

Definitions for intelligent

adjective

1. having good understanding or a high mental capacity; quick to comprehend, as persons or animals:
2. displaying or characterized by quickness of understanding, sound thought, or good judgment:
3. having the faculty of reasoning and understanding; possessing intelligence:
4. Computers. pertaining to the ability to do data processing locally; smart: Compare dumb (def 8).
5. Archaic. having understanding or knowledge (usually followed by of).

Origin of intelligent

1500-10; Latin intelligent- (stem of intelligēns, present participle of intelligere, variant of intellegere to understand, literally, choose between), equivalent to intel- (variant of inter-

Examples for intelligent

He was handsome and possessed a most intelligent and expressive countenance.

Beijing doesn't believe that the people of Hong Kong are intelligent enough to find their own way.

Governor Jindal seems like a good guy, intelligent, reasonable.

Genuinely funny and intelligent and navel-gazing and strange, these parts might eventually add up to something truly big.

He once had been friendly with all his intelligent neighbors, no matter what their nationality.

Large numbers believe that Kate is intelligent (49%) and even larger numbers (65%) saw her as a potentially positive role model.

It is composed of a brave, a free, a virtuous, and an intelligent people.

Vice President Jindal: “Here is a good, intelligent, and reasonable plan for legislative action.”

To get justice, or even an intelligent hearing, from these people, was hopeless.

Now it was another and older man, daring, intelligent, unscrupulous.