intelligent

adjectif

1. 1

   Of high or especially quick cognitive capacity, bright.

   Anstruther laughed good-naturedly. “[…] I shall take out half a dozen intelligent maistries from our Press and get them to give our villagers instruction when they begin work and when they are in the fields.”

2. 2

   Well thought-out, well considered.

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

   The general devised an intelligent strategy for the southern campaign.

3. 3

   Characterized by thoughtful interaction.

   My girlfriend and I had an intelligent conversation.

4. 4

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

   The hunt for extraterrestrial intelligent life continues.

5. 5

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

   an intelligent network or keyboard

nom

1. 1

   A member of the intelligentsia; an intelligent person.

   Now, as all intelligents are doomed to pass probationary states, it is highly probable that many intelligents, long antecedent to the foundation of our world, may have tarnished their innocence; or worse, many may have by disobedience fallen.

   Like many Russian intelligents, the Merežkovskijs, together with Filosofov and the young student Vladimir Zlobin, fled from Russia in 1919.

   But if you fall away from your faith, as many intelligents have fallen away, then you will no longer be Russia or Holy Rus’, but a rabble of all kinds of other faiths who wish to destroy one another.

   Many Russian intelligents, in particular scientists, that already in tsarist times were “infected” by liberal and even socialist ideas found in the revolution and the societal structure that followed, with all its horrible features, positive sides.

Formes

pluriel

intelligents

comparatif

more intelligent, intelligenter

superlatif

most intelligent, intelligentest