Entry Word: intelligence

Function: noun

Meaning: 1 the ability to learn and understand or to deal with problems <high scores on this test supposedly demonstrate great intelligence>

Synonyms brain(s), gray matter, intellect, reason, sense

Related Words acumen, alertness, astuteness, discernment, insight, judgment (or judgement), mentality, perception, perspicacity; sagacity, sapience, wisdom, wit; head, mind, skull

Near Antonyms denseness, density, doltishness, dopiness, dullness (also dulness), dumbness, fatuity, feeblemindedness, foolishness, idiocy, imbecility, senselessness, simpleness, slowness, stupidity

2 a report of recent events or facts not previously known <received the latest intelligence about how the war was going> — see news