intelligent

• entelligent (obsolete)

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

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈtɛlɪd͡ʒənt/

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intelligent (comparative more intelligent or (rare, proscribed) intelligenter, superlative most intelligent or (rare, proscribed) intelligentest)

1. Of high or especially quick cognitive capacity, bright.
   • 1927, F. E. Penny, chapter 5, in Pulling the Strings:

     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.”

2. 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.

3. Characterized by thoughtful interaction.

   My girlfriend and I had an intelligent conversation.

4. Having at least a similar level of brain power to humankind.

   The hunt for intelligent life.

5. Having an environment-sensing automatically-invoked built-in computer capability.

   an intelligent network or keyboard

• (of high or quick cognitive capacity): See Thesaurus:intelligent
• (similar level of brain power to mankind): See Thesaurus:self-aware

• stupid
• dumb
• unintelligent

Partly from Russian интеллиге́нт (intelligént) and partly from the adjective.

intelligent (plural intelligents)

1. A member of the intelligentsia; an intelligent person.
   • 1832, The Comparative Coincidence of Reason and Scripture, volume II, London: J[ohn] Hatchard and Son, […], page 253:

     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.

   • 1972, Olga Matich, Paradox in the Religious Poetry of Zinaida Gippius, Wilhelm Fink, →ISBN, page 30:

     Like many Russian intelligents, the Merežkovskijs, together with Filosofov and the young student Vladimir Zlobin, fled from Russia in 1919.

   • 2000, Nadieszda Kizenko, A Prodigal Saint: Father John of Kronstadt and the Russian People, The Pennsylvania State University Press, published 2003, →ISBN, page 248:

     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.

   • 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:

     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.

From French intelligent.

• IPA^(key): /enteliɡɛnt/, [entˢeliˈɡ̊ɛnˀd̥]

intelligent

1. intelligent

• begavet

• dum
• uintelligent

• intelligent liv
• uintelligent

• intelligens

• “intelligent” in Den Danske Ordbog

From 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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intelligent (comparative intelligenter, superlative intelligentst)

1. intelligent, bright, smart

• intellect
• intellectueel m & adjective
• intelligentia
• intelligentie

• → Indonesian: inteligen

Borrowed from Latin intelligentem (“discerning”), present active participle of intellegō (“understand, comprehend”), itself from inter (“between”) + legō (“choose, pick out, read”).

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.tɛ.li.ʒɑ̃/, /ɛ̃.te.li.ʒɑ̃/, /ɛ̃.tɛl.li.ʒɑ̃/[1]

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intelligent (feminine intelligente, masculine plural intelligents, feminine plural intelligentes)

1. intelligent

• intelligemment
• téléphone intelligent

• “intelligent”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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

• IPA^(key): /ʔɪntɛliˈɡɛnt/

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intelligent (strong nominative masculine singular intelligenter, comparative intelligenter, superlative am intelligentesten)

1. intelligent

   Synonym: klug

   • 2010, Der Spiegel‎, number 5/2010, page 100:

     Delphine sind die mit Abstand intelligentesten aller Tiere.

     Dolphins are by far the most intelligent of all animals.

• hochintelligent
• Intelligenz
• Intellekt
• intellektuell m

• “intelligent” in Duden online
• “intelligent” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

intelligent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of intelligō

intelligent (comparative intelligentare, superlative intelligentast)

1. intelligent, bright

   Antonym: ointelligent

• intelligens

intelligent (comparative intelligentare, superlative intelligentast)

1. intelligently

• intelligent in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• intelligent in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• intelligent in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)