Intelligent \In*tel"li*gent\, a. [L. intelligens, intellegens,
   -entis, p. pr. of intelligere, intellegere, to perceive;
   inter between + legere to gather, collect, choose: cf. F.
   intelligent. See Legend.]
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   1. Endowed with the faculty of understanding or reason; as,
      man is an intelligent being.
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   2. 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.
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   3. Cognizant; aware; communicative. [Obs.]
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            Intelligent of seasons.               --Milton.
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            Which are to France the spies and speculations
            Intelligent of our state.             --Shak.

   Syn: Sensible; understanding. See Sensible.
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	intelligent
     adj 1: having the capacity for thought and reason especially to a
            high degree; "is there intelligent life in the
            universe?"; "an intelligent question" [ant: unintelligent]
     2: possessing sound knowledge; "well-informed readers" [syn: well-informed]
     3: exercising or showing good judgment; "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" [syn: healthy, levelheaded, sound]
     4: endowed with the capacity to reason [syn: reasoning(a), thinking(a)]

	

	94 Moby Thesaurus words for "intelligent":
   acute, adroit, alert, all-knowing, apperceptive, appercipient,
   apprehending, apprehensive, apt, astute, au fait, aware, brainy,
   bright, brilliant, canny, cerebral, clever, cognizant,
   comprehending, conceptive, conceptual, conscious, consequent,
   cunning, discerning, discursive, docile, educable, endopsychic,
   enlightened, erudite, facile, formable, gifted, ideational,
   impressionable, ingenious, insightful, instructable, intellectual,
   internal, keen, knowing, knowledgeable, logical, malleable, mental,
   mindful, moldable, motivated, noetic, noological, not so dumb,
   omniscient, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, phrenic,
   plastic, pliable, prehensile, psychic, psychologic, quick,
   quick-witted, rational, ready, reasonable, reasoning, receptive,
   ripe for instruction, sagacious, sage, sane, savvy, schoolable,
   sensible, sharp, shrewd, smart, sophic, sound, spiritual,
   strong-minded, subjective, susceptible, teachable, thinking,
   thirsty for knowledge, trainable, understanding, willing, wise