intelligent

Academic Word List, sublist 6.

About 14.34 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Of high or especially quick cognitive capacity, bright.
2. adjective Well thought-out, well considered.

   The engineer had a very intelligent design proposal for the new car.

3. adjective Characterized by thoughtful interaction.

   My girlfriend and I had an intelligent conversation.

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

   The hunt for extraterrestrial intelligent life continues.

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

   an intelligent network or keyboard

6. noun A member of the intelligentsia; an intelligent person.

Similar words

smart as a whip brainy sophisticated sensible well-informed thinking rational reasonable incisive clever

Often followed by

and man people men than person beings enough being

Word family

intelligence intelligential intelligently