intelligent

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[ UK /ɪntˈɛlɪd‍ʒənt/ ]
[ US /ˌɪnˈtɛɫədʒənt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. exercising or showing good judgment
    healthy relations between labor and management
    no sound explanation for his decision
    a healthy fear of rattlesnakes
    healthy scepticism
    a sound approach to the problem
    sound advice
    the healthy attitude of French laws
    an intelligent solution
  2. endowed with the capacity to reason
  3. possessing sound knowledge
    well-informed readers
  4. having the capacity for thought and reason especially to a high degree
    is there intelligent life in the universe?
    an intelligent question
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How To Use intelligent In A Sentence

  • It seems the interest in an intelligent house is rapidly growing.
  • If we fail to develop emotional intelligence, or cannot control or restrain our emotions, we will lose our intellectual ability to think, reason and live rationally and intelligently. Dr T.P.Chia 
  • He was a highly intelligent commercial lawyer and then judge who suddenly found himself having to grind out fact after fact from nuggets of information painstakingly. Times, Sunday Times
  • I think that while full-on female displays will evoke an easy and instinctual hormone rush -- which, as I said, might be a good complement to a melee brawl -- most intelligent people will agree that some sort of subtlety in sexuality is appealing on more levels simultaneously. Archive 2008-02-01
  • When he first came into the job, he was viewed as cool, aloof and intelligent.
  • No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself. Alfred Tennyson 
  • Founded in Sep of 2004, IrishEnvy. com has grown in to a premiere web portal upon a Internet for grown up as well as intelligent Notre Dame Fighting Irish entertainment discussion! Tunverified voracity
  • He's intelligent, witty, a loving husband, and an excellent cook into the bargain.
  • If you are intelligent and disciplined enough to read dense books, then why do you lack faith in your own abilities to show discipline with a television set?
  • He wanted to show that one could be an educated and intelligent believer without abandoning the apostolic rule of faith and life.
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