intelligent

名词 n. 形容词 adj.

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.
形容词 adj.
  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. Well thought-out, well considered.
    — The engineer had a very intelligent design proposal for the new car.
  3. Characterized by thoughtful interaction.
    — My girlfriend and I had an intelligent conversation.
  4. Having at least a similar level of brain power to humankind.
    — The hunt for extraterrestrial intelligent life continues.
  5. Having an environment-sensing automatically-invoked built-in computer capability.
    — an intelligent network or keyboard

词形变化

more intelligent comparative intelligenter comparative,proscribed,rare most intelligent superlative intelligentest proscribed,rare,superlative entelligent alternative intelligents plural entelligent alternative

词源

词源 1
From Middle French intelligent, from Latin intellegēns (“discerning”), present active participle of intellegō (“understand, comprehend”), itself from inter (“between”) + legō (“choose, pick out, read”).
词源 2
Partly from Russian интеллиге́нт (intelligént) and partly from the adjective.
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