intelligent
/ɪnˈtɛlɪd͡ʒənt/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.29 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adj
adj
Having an environment-sensing automatically-invoked built-in computer capability.
noun
A member of the intelligentsia; an intelligent person.
Example Sentences
- "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.”"
- "The engineer had a very intelligent design proposal for the new car."
- "The general devised an intelligent strategy for the southern campaign."
- "My girlfriend and I had an intelligent conversation."
- "The hunt for extraterrestrial intelligent life continues."
- "an intelligent network or keyboard"
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *-tér Proto-Indo-European *h₁n̥tér Proto-Italic *n̥ter Latin inter Latin inter- Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *léǵeti Proto-Italic *legō Latin legō? Proto-Indo-European *h₂leg- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *h₂légeti Proto-Italic *legō? Latin intelligō Latin intelligēns Middle French intelligent English intelligent From Middle French intelligent, from Latin intellegēns (“discerning”), present active participle of intellegō (“understand, comprehend”), itself from inter (“between”) + legō (“choose, pick out, read”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *leǵ-, intelligent, intelligens, интеллиге́нт
Inflected Forms
more intelligent (comparative)
intelligenter (comparative, proscribed)
most intelligent (superlative)
intelligentest (proscribed, rare)
entelligent (alternative)
intelligents (plural)