intelligent life

: 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