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.”
Well thought-out, well considered.
The engineer had a very intelligent design proposal for the new car.
Characterized by thoughtful interaction.
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.
From Middle French intelligent, from Latin intellegēns (“discerning”), present active participle of intellegō (“understand, comprehend”), itself from inter (“between”) + legō (“choose, pick out, read”...
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My girlfriend and I had an intelligent conversation.