intelligent

pronunciation

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  • Adjective:
    having the capacity for thought and reason especially to a high degree
    possessing sound knowledge
    exercising or showing good judgment
    endowed with the capacity to reason

Word Origin

intelligent (adj.)
c. 1500, a back-formation from intelligence or else from Latin intelligentem (nominative intelligens), present participle of intelligere, earlier intellegere (see intelligence). Intelligent design, as a name for an alternative to atheistic cosmology and the theory of evolution, is from 1999. Related: Intelligently.

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Example

1. Bush asks how she knows if they 're intelligent .
2. So , smart people will not necessarily successful , but successful people must be intelligent .
3. Most investors are intelligent people , neither irrational nor insane .
4. She was beautiful and intelligent but hated all women .
5. America 's foreign policy comes across as principled , intelligent and pragmatic .

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