Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

intelligential

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: in-tel-li-gen-tial
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

5

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of or pertaining to intelligence.

Example Sentences

"[…] in at his mouth The Devil entered; and his brutal sense, In heart or head, possessing, soon inspired With act intelligential; but his sleep Disturbed not, waiting close the approach of morn."
"Nor demonstration physical alone, Or more intelligential and abstruse, Persuades me to this faith; but from that truth It cometh to me rather, which is shed Through Moses, the rapt Prophets, and the Psalms."
"In the line of light bringers who pass from hand to hand the torch of intelligential fire, there are men of most unequal stature, and a giant may stoop to take the precious flambeau from a dwarf."

Etymology

From Latin intelligentia (“intelligence”) + -al.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: intelligentia

Derived Forms

intelligentially

Questions

What does intelligential mean?: Of or pertaining to intelligence.
Where does intelligential come from?: From Latin intelligentia (“intelligence”) + -al.

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