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intelligent

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of intelligent

1 having or showing quickness of mind

proud parents typically insist that their child is intelligent way beyond his or her years

his intelligent response to the emergency averted a disaster

Synonyms of intelligent

alert, brainy, bright, brilliant, clever, exceptional, fast, hyperintelligent, keen, nimble, quick, quick-witted, sharp, sharp-witted, smart, supersmart, ultrasmart

Words Related to intelligent

apt, ingenious, resourceful

acute, astute, discerning, heady, insightful, knowing, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, sagacious, sapient, savvy, wise

cerebral, erudite, genial, highbrow, knowledgeable, learned, literate, scholarly, well-read

educated, informed, schooled, skilled, trained

creative, inventive, judicious, prudent, sage, sane, sapient, sensible, sound, wise

crafty, cunning, foxy, shrewd, wily

logical, rational, reasonable

Near Antonyms of intelligent

feebleminded, simpleminded

boobish, foolish, half-baked, idiotic (also idiotical), imbecile (or imbecilic), moronic, silly

ignorant, illiterate, lowbrow, nonintellectual, unacademic, uneducated, uninformed, unintellectual, untaught, unthinking

absurd, asinine, balmy, cockeyed, crackpot, crazy, cuckoo, daffy, daft, dippy, dotty, featherheaded, fool, half-baked, harebrained, insane, kooky (also kookie), loony (also looney), lunatic, mad, nonsensical, nutty, preposterous, sappy, screwball, tomfool, unwise, wacky (also whacky), zany

Antonyms of intelligent

airheaded, birdbrained, boneheaded, brain-dead, brainless, bubbleheaded, chuckleheaded, dense, dim, dim-witted, doltish, dopey (also dopy), dorky [slang], dull, dumb, dunderheaded, empty-headed, fatuous, gormless [chiefly British], half-witted, knuckleheaded, lamebrain (or lamebrained), lunkheaded, mindless, obtuse, opaque, pinheaded, senseless, simple, slow, slow-witted, soft, softheaded, stupid, thick, thickheaded, thick-witted, unbrilliant, unintelligent, unsmart, vacuous, weak-minded, witless

2 having the ability to reason

there is some debate over whether dolphins are intelligent animals

Synonyms of intelligent

rational, reasonable, reasoning, thinking

Words Related to intelligent

analytic (or analytical), logical

brainy, cerebral, highbrow, highbrowed, intellectual

cognitional, cognitive, mental

levelheaded, practical, sane, sensible, sober

Near Antonyms of intelligent

brainless, dense, doltish, dopey (also dopy), dorky [slang], dull, dumb, fatuous, half-witted, mindless, obtuse, senseless, slow, stupid, thickheaded

fallacious, groundless, illogical, invalid, nonsensical

Antonyms of intelligent

irrational, nonrational, nonthinking, unintelligent, unreasonable, unreasoning, unthinking

3 having or showing good judgment and restraint especially in conduct or speech

the only intelligent response to such a tasteless joke is to quickly change the subject

Synonyms of intelligent

discreet, judgmatic (or judgmatical), judicious, prudent

Words Related to intelligent

cautious, chary, circumspect, cozy

forehanded, foresighted, foresightful, forethoughtful

discerning, discriminating, sage, sane, sapient, senseful, sensible, wise

canny, provident

astute, perspicacious, sagacious, shrewd

Near Antonyms of intelligent

careless, heedless, incautious, rash

improvident, shortsighted

foolish, unwise

Antonyms of intelligent

imprudent, indiscreet, injudicious

Synonym Discussion of intelligent

intelligent, clever, alert, quick-witted mean mentally keen or quick. intelligent stresses success in coping with new situations and solving problems.

- an intelligent person could assemble it fast

clever implies native ability or aptness and sometimes suggests a lack of more substantial qualities.

- clever with words

alert stresses quickness in perceiving and understanding.

- alert to new technology

quick-witted implies promptness in finding answers in debate or in devising expedients in moments of danger or challenge.

- no match for his quick-witted opponent

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