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• adj.

  • able (adjective)

  • up it,
  • more intelligent,
  • powerful,
  • know ones onions,
  • smart,
  • know one onions,
  • up snuff,
  • pre pared,
  • therer,
  • up speed,
  • more skilled,
  • know ropes,
  • more efficient,
  • therest,
  • know onions,
  • effortless,
  • most efficient,
  • end owed,
  • pre-pared,
  • know backwards forwards,
  • end-owed.

  • alert (adjective)

  • fast on draw,
  • wisest,
  • jazzed,
  • more jazzed,
  • more careful,
  • fast draw,
  • most jazzed,
  • on qui vive,
  • on job,
  • fast the draw,
  • on ones toes,
  • on one toes.

  • all (adjective)

  • intelligent.

  • apt (adjective)

  • nobody’s fool,
  • nobody fool,
  • quick trigger,
  • nobodys fool,
  • prompt,
  • quick the uptake,
  • quick uptake,
  • quick the trigger,
  • quick on uptake.

  • astute (adjective)

  • shrewdest,
  • sharp as tack.

  • aware (adjective)

  • conscious.

  • calculating (adjective)

  • manipulative,
  • safest,
  • SAFER,
  • gingerly.

  • canny (adjective)

  • more nimble witted,
  • most nimblewitted,
  • heppest,
  • Worldlywise,
  • most nimble-witted,
  • most streetwise,
  • slick,
  • more nimblewitted,
  • more acute,
  • most nimble witted,
  • more nimble-witted,
  • nimblewitted,
  • more streetwise,
  • nimble witted.

  • capable (adjective)

  • like a oneman band,
  • like a one man band,
  • like pistol,
  • more up,
  • having goods,
  • like oneman band,
  • most up,
  • old timer,
  • most dynamite,
  • most oldtimer,
  • having knowhow,
  • having right stuff,
  • more suited,
  • more dynamite,
  • having know how,
  • more old timer,
  • veteran,
  • has what takes,
  • knowing score,
  • most old timer,
  • like one-man band,
  • more old-timer,
  • most old-timer,
  • more fireball,
  • like one man band,
  • most capable,
  • more oldtimer,
  • most fireball.

  • clever (adjective)

  • dexterousdextrous,
  • pro,
  • dexterous dextrous,
  • more crackerjack,
  • dexterous-dextrous,
  • manysided,
  • more egghead,
  • many sided,
  • most egghead,
  • most crackerjack.

  • consequent (adjective)

  • ensuing,
  • in direct,
  • most inferable,
  • more resulting,
  • most resulting,
  • more reasonable,
  • more understandable,
  • sub sequent,
  • in-direct,
  • more inferable,
  • sub-sequent.

  • crafty (adjective)

  • dis ingenuous,
  • dis-ingenuous.

  • cultured (adjective)

  • more aesthetic,
  • more blue-stocking,
  • traveled,
  • savant,
  • in-formed,
  • most distingue,
  • more informed,
  • urbane,
  • most savant,
  • in formed,
  • most blue-stocking,
  • highclass,
  • re fined,
  • more blue stocking,
  • most blue stocking,
  • high class,
  • most bluestocking,
  • up to date,
  • under-standing,
  • more bluestocking,
  • more understanding,
  • more savant,
  • more distingue,
  • under standing.

  • cunning (adjective)

  • Slighty,
  • well-planned,
  • well-laid.

  • discerning (adjective)

  • more clearsighted,
  • in-sighted,
  • most gnostic,
  • more clear-sighted,
  • more gnostic,
  • clear sighted,
  • most percipient,
  • more clear sighted,
  • most clearsighted,
  • in sighted,
  • more percipient,
  • most insighted,
  • more insighted,
  • most clear-sighted,
  • gnostic,
  • most clear sighted.

  • discreet (adjective)

  • Precautious,
  • like a clam,
  • not rash,
  • on lookout,
  • having foresight,
  • non-committal.

  • educated (adjective)

  • more well versed,
  • most coached,
  • versed in,
  • most tutored,
  • welltaught,
  • most formed,
  • well taught,
  • co ached,
  • more welltaught,
  • most well versed,
  • more well-versed,
  • Nurtured,
  • most wellversed,
  • well read,
  • more formed,
  • more tutored,
  • most well-versed,
  • more shaped,
  • well-taught,
  • most schooled,
  • most well taught,
  • more schooled,
  • most shaped,
  • co-ached,
  • more wellversed,
  • more well taught,
  • most nurtured,
  • shaped,
  • wellversed,
  • more nurtured,
  • well versed,
  • more well-taught,
  • more coached,
  • most well-taught,
  • most welltaught,
  • wellread.

  • fine (adjective)

  • fine spun,
  • more hairline,
  • most fine-spun,
  • most hairline,
  • trifling,
  • most fine spun,
  • un polluted,
  • un adulterated,
  • more unpolluted,
  • most unpolluted,
  • un-adulterated,
  • more hairsplitting,
  • more fine spun,
  • most enigmatic,
  • un-polluted,
  • most hairsplitting,
  • more fine-spun.

  • foxy (adjective)

  • dis honest,
  • foxy,
  • dis-honest,
  • most retiary,
  • more retiary.

  • highbrow (adjective)

  • more intellective,
  • most intellective,
  • Intellective.

  • ingenious (adjective)

  • innovative,
  • more innovative,
  • most innovational,
  • most deviceful,
  • more innovational,
  • more deviceful,
  • innovational.

  • insightful (adjective)

  • ear the ground,
  • knows whats what,
  • most penetrative,
  • more penetrative,
  • knows what what,
  • ear to ground,
  • ear ground.

  • intellectual (adjective)

  • psychological,
  • highbrow,
  • phrenic,
  • highbrowed,
  • understanding,
  • reasoning,
  • egghead.

  • intelligent (adjective)

  • erudite,
  • bright,
  • cogent,
  • perspicacious,
  • encyclopedic,
  • wise,
  • worldly,
  • gifted,
  • genius,
  • Comprehending.

  • knowing (adjective)

  • learned,
  • tuned-in,
  • with-it,
  • encylopedic,
  • competent,
  • Sophic,
  • omniscient,
  • informed,
  • cognizant,
  • shrewd,
  • experienced,
  • witting,
  • versed.

  • knowledgeable (adjective)

  • more apprised,
  • in know,
  • well-rounded,
  • most apprised,
  • most abreast,
  • more abreast,
  • most knowledgeable,
  • wellrounded,
  • most posted,
  • more posted,
  • well rounded,
  • plugged in.

  • liberal (adjective)

  • most latitudinarian,
  • latitudinarian,
  • more libertarian,
  • more humanistic,
  • avantgarde,
  • most unbigoted,
  • most libertarian,
  • most humanistic,
  • broad minded,
  • un bigoted,
  • reformist,
  • more latitudinarian,
  • un prejudiced,
  • un biased,
  • more reformist,
  • highminded,
  • liberal,
  • un-bigoted,
  • more unbigoted,
  • un conventional,
  • most reformist,
  • avant garde,
  • un-prejudiced,
  • high minded,
  • un-conventional.

  • logical (adjective)

  • more extensional,
  • wellorganized,
  • more well organized,
  • ex tensional,
  • most well-organized,
  • holding together,
  • most likely,
  • well organized,
  • most well organized,
  • more well-organized,
  • more juridicious,
  • most extensional,
  • logical,
  • most wellorganized,
  • re levant,
  • more wellorganized,
  • re-levant,
  • ex-tensional,
  • most juridicious.

  • observant (adjective)

  • more intentive,
  • dis-covering,
  • most intentive,
  • sharpeyed,
  • eagle eyed,
  • more sharpeyed,
  • eagleeyed,
  • most deducing,
  • more contemplating,
  • more discovering,
  • more advertent,
  • more questioning,
  • most sharp-eyed,
  • most sharp eyed,
  • more surveying,
  • not missing trick,
  • more detecting,
  • dis covering,
  • more comprehending,
  • most advertent,
  • most surveying,
  • more deducing,
  • most sharpeyed,
  • most discovering,
  • most detecting,
  • more sharp eyed,
  • most observative,
  • most comprehending,
  • more sharp-eyed,
  • sharp eyed,
  • most contemplating,
  • most questioning,
  • more observative.

  • on the ball (adjective)

  • on ball,
  • on stick.

  • open-eyed (adjective)

  • openeyed.

  • Other relevant words: (adjective)

  • philosophic,
  • well-advised,
  • on the qui vive,
  • streetwise,
  • bluestocking,
  • Hepper,
  • having the goods,
  • like a pistol,
  • extensional,
  • crafty,
  • orphic,
  • Fine-spun,
  • holding water,
  • up to it,
  • insighted,
  • matter of fact,
  • sane,
  • Acroamatic,
  • hep,
  • heads up,
  • advertent,
  • there,
  • strong,
  • fast on the draw,
  • Retiary,
  • resourceful,
  • having fancy footwork,
  • Intentive,
  • precocious,
  • nimble-witted,
  • able,
  • like a one-man band,
  • having the right stuff,
  • unpolluted,
  • up to snuff,
  • cerebral,
  • well-organized,
  • percipient,
  • clever,
  • on toes,
  • knowledgeable,
  • clear-sighted,
  • cognitive,
  • Inferable,
  • rational,
  • tricky,
  • wide-awake,
  • penetrative,
  • capable,
  • knows what’s what,
  • cunning,
  • ear to the ground,
  • knowing the score,
  • shining at,
  • quick on trigger,
  • sensible,
  • educated,
  • sage,
  • Witted,
  • Deviceful,
  • having all one’s marbles,
  • juridicious,
  • oldtimer,
  • mentally stable,
  • fireball,
  • smart as a whip,
  • Observative,
  • all ears,
  • sharp-sighted,
  • cultured,
  • Trainable,
  • equal to,
  • not missing a trick,
  • intellectual,
  • quick-thinking,
  • humanistic,
  • good hands,
  • switched on,
  • no dummy,
  • on one’s toes,
  • ingenious,
  • worldly wise,
  • astute,
  • quick on the trigger,
  • on the ball,
  • on the job,
  • well-versed,
  • know one’s onions,
  • well-reasoned,
  • well-thought-out,
  • consequent,
  • blue-stocking,
  • bookish,
  • thinking,
  • liberalistic,
  • calculating,
  • distingue,
  • on the stick,
  • in the know,
  • apt,
  • well thought out,
  • all there,
  • in right mind,
  • psyched up,
  • knowing,
  • on the lookout,
  • savvy,
  • crazy like fox,
  • know backwards and forwards,
  • discreet,
  • clearsighted,
  • alert,
  • profound,
  • broadminded,
  • sharp-eyed,
  • hairline,
  • tuned in,
  • up to speed,
  • talented,
  • quick on the draw,
  • having know-how,
  • insightful,
  • canny,
  • libertarian,
  • unbigoted,
  • deductive,
  • has what it takes,
  • sagacious,
  • quick-witted,
  • having a knack,
  • quick on the uptake,
  • sharp as a tack.

  • precocious (adjective)

  • flipper,
  • smart alecky.

  • profound (adjective)

  • more orphic,
  • more acroamatic,
  • pro-found,
  • most acroamatic,
  • hermetic,
  • pro founder,
  • pro-founder,
  • pro found,
  • most orphic.

  • quick (adjective)

  • quick draw,
  • smart as whip,
  • whizest,
  • whizer,
  • quick the draw,
  • quick on draw,
  • quickest.

  • quick-witted (adjective)

  • most sharp sighted,
  • more sharp sighted,
  • more sharp-sighted,
  • most sharpsighted,
  • more sharpsighted,
  • sharpsighted,
  • quick witted,
  • most sharp-sighted,
  • sharp sighted,
  • quickwitted.

  • rational (adjective)

  • more cognitive,
  • most cognitive,
  • most reasoning,
  • most deductive,
  • more reasoning,
  • more deductive,
  • far sighted.

  • reasonable (adjective)

  • feasible,
  • plausible,
  • likely,
  • thought-out,
  • conceivable,
  • inductive.

  • resourceful (adjective)

  • re sourceful,
  • re-sourceful.

  • sagacious (adjective)

  • authoritative,
  • scholarly,
  • master,
  • Astucious,
  • adept,
  • expert.

  • sage (adjective)

  • fore sighted,
  • fore-sighted.

  • sane (adjective)

  • of sound mind,
  • having all marbles,
  • both oars in water,
  • playing with full deck,
  • oriented,
  • in one’s right mind.

  • sensible (adjective)

  • having all ones marbles,
  • having ones marbles,
  • more wellreasoned,
  • most well reasoned,
  • having all one marbles,
  • more well-thought-out,
  • most wellreasoned,
  • most well-thought-out,
  • more well thought out,
  • most well-reasoned,
  • well reasoned,
  • more well reasoned,
  • having one marbles,
  • more well-reasoned,
  • wellreasoned,
  • most well thought out,
  • having one’s marbles.

  • sharp (adjective)

  • having smarts,
  • smart as a tack.

  • sharp-witted (adjective)

  • more quick-thinking,
  • sharp witted,
  • sharpwitted,
  • most quick thinking,
  • more quick thinking,
  • quickthinking,
  • most quick-thinking,
  • more quickthinking,
  • quick thinking,
  • most quickthinking.

  • strong (adjective)

  • take charge,
  • hardnosed,
  • iron-willed.

  • talented (adjective)

  • having knack,
  • more talented.

  • tricky (adjective)

  • mis leading,
  • wry,
  • mis-leading,
  • most witted,
  • more witted.

  • very smart (adjective)

  • inventive,
  • witty.

  • well-advised (adjective)

  • well advised,
  • welladvised.

  • well-balanced (adjective)

  • wellbalanced,
  • well balanced,
  • level headed.

  • wide-awake (adjective)

  • wideawake,
  • bright-eyed and bushy-tailed,
  • wide-eyed.

  • witty (adjective)

  • dry,
  • pithy,
  • joking,
  • scurrilous,
  • campy,
  • epigrammatic,
  • subtle,
  • sly,
  • sarcastic,
  • pointed,
  • comical,
  • jocular,
  • funny,
  • sparkling,
  • campier,
  • facetious,
  • wily,
  • waggish,
  • campiest,
  • droll,
  • deft,
  • adroit.

• n.

  •
  • active,
  • asynchronous,
  • backward-compatible,
  • clickable,
  • best-of-breed,
  • farsighted,
  • Antivirus,
  • bursty,
  • compatibility,
  • compatible,
  • case-sensitive.
  •
  • ability.
  •
  • Sharp-witted.
  •
  • reason.

  • agile (noun)

  • agile.

  • brainy (noun)

  • brainy.

  • brilliant (noun)

  • brilliant.

  • crafty (noun)

  • artful.

  • healthy (noun)

  • healthy.

  • incisive (noun)

  • incisive.

  • intelligent (noun)

  • innate,
  • natural,
  • reasonable,
  • scintillating,
  • born,
  • ready,
  • sound,
  • sophisticated,
  • prehensile,
  • sharp,
  • trenchant,
  • nimble,
  • keen,
  • quick,
  • well-informed,
  • searching,
  • levelheaded.

  • Other relevant words: (noun)

  • virtuoso,
  • dillettante,
  • character trait,
  • old pro,
  • characteristic,
  • pros,
  • superstar,
  • artistes,
  • SHARPS,
  • superstars,
  • no slouch,
  • artiste,
  • adepts,
  • hotshot,
  • hot stuff,
  • hotshots,
  • magician,
  • naturals.

  • virtuoso (noun)

  • intelligents,
  • hot stuffs,
  • super-star,
  • no slouches,
  • dillettantes,
  • super stars,
  • super-stars,
  • super star,
  • old pros.

• v.

  • discriminating (verb)

  • discerning.

  • Other relevant words: (verb)

  • behaviour.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • intuitive,
  • receptive,
  • pointy-headed,
  • sapient,
  • donnish,
  • observant,
  • literate,
  • rapier,
  • original,
  • owlish,
  • reflective,
  • academic,
  • lively,
  • inquiring,
  • imaginative,
  • razor-sharp,
  • inquisitive,
  • perceptive.
  •
  • luminous,
  • penetrating.
  •
  • vacant.

  • lucid

  • clearheaded.

  • observant

  • observing.

  • Other relevant words (noun):

  • endure,
  • Educable,
  • achieve,
  • provide,
  • valid,
  • practical,
  • salubrious,
  • detain,
  • strong-minded,
  • brilliancy,
  • convey,
  • cleverness,
  • effulgent,
  • fine,
  • realise,
  • conceptual,
  • qualified,
  • brightness,
  • accomplish,
  • dawn,
  • timely,
  • pass through,
  • felicitous,
  • careful,
  • internal,
  • swift,
  • illumined,
  • guarded,
  • open-eyed,
  • slow-witted,
  • realistic,
  • prepared,
  • fit,
  • strive,
  • conceptive,
  • exceptional,
  • instant,
  • spry,
  • well-balanced,
  • goodly,
  • down-to-earth,
  • arch,
  • judicious,
  • establish,
  • motivated,
  • celebrate,
  • discriminating,
  • moldable,
  • learner,
  • facile,
  • provident,
  • attain,
  • Recommendable,
  • supersmart,
  • order,
  • deep,
  • advanced,
  • discursive,
  • piercing,
  • command,
  • coruscating,
  • expeditious,
  • Ready-witted,
  • creative,
  • day,
  • quickly,
  • enlightened,
  • au fait,
  • appercipient,
  • meditative,
  • advised,
  • together,
  • vigilant,
  • sober,
  • Yare,
  • bring,
  • apropos,
  • fulfill,
  • legal,
  • contain,
  • versatile,
  • responsible,
  • formable,
  • lambent,
  • well-read,
  • become aware of,
  • constitution,
  • politic,
  • wag,
  • well-grounded,
  • eyesight,
  • respectable,
  • wit,
  • Argute,
  • philosophical,
  • common sense,
  • daybreak,
  • pupil,
  • good,
  • flash,
  • obtain,
  • cognisant,
  • decree,
  • lighted,
  • watchful,
  • apperceptive,
  • teachable,
  • hefty,
  • responsive,
  • mental,
  • needlelike,
  • dignity,
  • interpret,
  • calculated,
  • comprise,
  • clarify,
  • ordinance,
  • thorough,
  • tidy,
  • have,
  • whiz,
  • calculative,
  • spiritual,
  • go ahead,
  • well-educated,
  • spiky,
  • read,
  • wittiness,
  • noetic,
  • alive to,
  • apprehensive,
  • arrive at,
  • reasoned,
  • student,
  • susceptible,
  • smartness,
  • scholar,
  • edict,
  • willing,
  • hold,
  • germane,
  • fulgurating,
  • discriminative,
  • be aroused,
  • heavy,
  • assert,
  • sensitive,
  • humor,
  • prudent,
  • trained,
  • pensive,
  • instructed,
  • proper,
  • fast,
  • notify,
  • contemplative,
  • mindful,
  • studious,
  • prickly,
  • all-knowing,
  • pliable,
  • Daedalian,
  • seemly,
  • mature,
  • impressionable,
  • masterful,
  • understand,
  • perspicuous,
  • straightaway,
  • docile,
  • knowledgable,
  • aware,
  • promoting health,
  • street smart,
  • judgmatic,
  • circumspect,
  • composition,
  • commonsensical,
  • skilled,
  • accomplished,
  • law,
  • effectual,
  • taught,
  • wakeless,
  • level-headed,
  • prove,
  • sheer,
  • diplomatic,
  • cogitative,
  • talking,
  • cultivated,
  • alive,
  • artist,
  • beamy,
  • sizeable,
  • Apprehending,
  • get,
  • ultrasmart,
  • Noological,
  • acute,
  • cute,
  • literary,
  • goodish,
  • thoughtful,
  • capacity,
  • endowed,
  • inform,
  • adhere,
  • observe,
  • long-headed,
  • ratiocinative,
  • Psychologic,
  • attentive,
  • hyperintelligent,
  • expedient,
  • advisable,
  • Keen-witted,
  • rule,
  • scientist,
  • happy,
  • dexterous,
  • skilful,
  • far-sighted,
  • subjective,
  • sizable,
  • statute,
  • bear,
  • knifelike,
  • conversant,
  • acquire,
  • plastic,
  • tactful,
  • breakneck,
  • considered,
  • schooled,
  • Clear-headed,
  • malleable,
  • ideational,
  • gain,
  • awake,
  • mentality,
  • healthful,
  • wisdom,
  • intelligible,
  • deliver,
  • lofty,
  • realize,
  • psychic.

How to use «Intelligent» in context?

Paraphrases for Intelligent:

• Equivalence

  • Foreign word
    smart.
  • Adjective
    brainy, clever, rational, smart.
  • Proper noun, singular
    clever, smart.
  • Noun, plural
    smart, smarts.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    clever, smart.
  • Interjection
    smart.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    smart.
  • Verb, base form
    smart.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    advanced, bright, brilliant, cunning, efficient, enlightened, eye-catching, innovative, meaningful, prudent, sentient, shrewd, skilful, slim, sophisticated, sound, thoughtful, unwise, thought-out, common-sense.
  • Proper noun, singular
    Its, GIS.
  • Noun, plural
    games, Brains, institutions.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    termite.
  • Adverb
    wisely.

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  • Adjective
    astute, discerning, ingenious, judicious, reasonable.
  • Proper noun, singular
    intelligently.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    sensibility.
  • Adverb
    intelligently.

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Synonyms:

abate,
calm down,
check,
contract,
crumble,
curb,
curtail,
cut down,
decay,
decline.

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