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adjective

Intelligent adj.

Endowed with the faculty of understanding or reason; as, man is an intelligent being.

Possessed of a high level of intelligence, education, or judgment; knowing; sensible; skilled; exhibiting high intelligence; as, an intelligent young man; an intelligent architect; an intelligent answer.

Cognizant; aware; communicative. (Obs.) "Intelligent of seasons." "Which are to France the spies and speculations Intelligent of our state."

Synonyms: Sensible; understanding. See Sensible.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... blundered into holes and were rescued by grasping the unwound putties of their comrades. And so between three and four o'clock a strong party of the British had established their position upon the right flank of the Boers, and were holding on like grim death with an intelligent appreciation that the fortunes of the day depended upon their ...

— The Great Boer War • Arthur Conan Doyle

... Everington's geniuses fell all of a sudden into a loquaciousness which was merely the reaction of his love for his wife, the instinct which makes the male bird sing. He just went on talking; and every day he became in his own estimation and in that of Asako, a more intelligent, a more original and a more ...

— Kimono • John Paris

... new to many; and especially here in the heart of the City, partly from the influence of Dean Colet's sermons and catechisings at St. Paul's, but also from remnants of Lollardism, which had never been entirely quenched. The ordinary clergy looked at it with horror, but the intelligent and thoughtful of the burgher and craftsman classes studied it with a passionate fervour which might have sooner broken out and in more perilous forms save for the guidance it received in the truly Catholic and open-spirited ...

— The Armourer's Prentices • Charlotte Mary Yonge

... than that of any other lines in Nature. It will not be detected by the general observer, if you miss the curve of a branch, or the sweep of a cloud, or the perspective of a building;[231] but every intelligent spectator will feel the difference between a rightly drawn bend of shore or shingle, and a false one. Absolutely right, in difficult river perspectives seen from heights, I believe no one but Turner ever has been yet; and observe, there is NO ...

— The Crown of Wild Olive • John Ruskin

... a very old family of good standing in the North of Scotland. After studying in Aberdeen he travelled in France, Spain, and Italy, where his sword was as active as that intelligent curiosity of his which is evidenced by his familiarity with three languages and the large library which he brought back, according to his own account, from sixteen countries ...

— Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete. • Francois Rabelais

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