intelligent life
Definition of intelligent life
: beings that can learn and understand things looking for signs of intelligent life on other planets
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: having or indicating a high or satisfactory degree of intelligence and mental capacity
: revealing or reflecting good judgment or sound thought : skillful
: possessing intelligence
: the quality that distinguishes a vital and functional being from a dead body
: a principle or force that is considered to underlie the distinctive quality of animate beings
: an organismic state characterized by capacity for metabolism (see metabolism 1), growth, reaction to stimuli, and reproduction
: of or relating to animate being
: lifelong
: using a living model
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