intelligent
Adjective
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Having the capacity for thought and reason especially to a high degree (synset 301337350)
"is there intelligent life in the universe?"; "an intelligent question"also:
- smart - showing mental alertness and calculation and resourcefulness
- precocious - characterized by or characteristic of exceptionally early development or maturity (especially in mental aptitude)
tells us about: intelligence - the ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experiencesimilar to:- agile, nimble - mentally quick
- apt, clever - mentally quick and resourceful
- brainy, brilliant, smart as a whip - having or marked by unusual and impressive intelligence
- bright, smart - characterized by quickness and ease in learning
- born, innate, natural - being talented through inherited qualities
- quick, ready - apprehending and responding with speed and sensitivity
- prehensile - having a keen intellect
- scintillating - brilliantly clever
- searching, trenchant - having keenness and forcefulness and penetration in thought, expression, or intellect
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Possessing sound knowledge (synset 302278811)
"well-informed readers"similar to: sophisticated - having or appealing to those having worldly knowledge and refinement and savoir-fairesame as: well-informed
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Exercising or showing good judgment (synset 301950705)
"healthy scepticism"; "a healthy fear of rattlesnakes"; "the healthy attitude of French laws"; "healthy relations between labor and management"; "an intelligent solution"; "a sound approach to the problem"; "sound advice"; "no sound explanation for his decision"similar to: reasonable, sensible - showing reason or sound judgment
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Endowed with the capacity to reason (synset 301932488)
similar to: rational - consistent with or based on or using reason
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