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Adjectives (11)
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intelligent
adj. having the capacity for thought and reason especially to a high degree; "is there intelligent life in the universe?"; "an intelligent question"
intelligent, well-informed
adj. possessing sound knowledge; "well-informed readers"
intelligent, reasoning(a), thinking(a)
adj. endowed with the capacity to reason
healthy, intelligent, levelheaded, level-headed, sound
adj. exercising or showing good judgment; "healthy scepticism"; "a healthy fear of rattlesnakes"; "the healthy attitude of French laws"; "healthy relations between labor and management"; "an intelligent solution"; "a sound approach to the problem"; "sound advice"; "no sound explanation for his decision"
Fuzzynyms (71)
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astute, sharp, shrewd
adj. marked by practical hardheaded intelligence; "a smart businessman"; "an astute tenant always reads the small print in a lease"; "he was too shrewd to go along with them on a road that could lead only to their overthrow"
perspicacious, sagacious, sapient
adj. acutely insightful and wise; "much too perspicacious to be taken in by such a spurious argument"; "observant and thoughtful, he was given to asking sagacious questions"; "a source of valuable insights and sapient advice to educators"
talented, gifted
adj. endowed with talent or talents; "a gifted writer"
crafty, cunning, dodgy, foxy, guileful, knavish, slick, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily
adj. marked by skill in deception; "cunning men often pass for wise"; "deep political machinations"; "a foxy scheme"; "a slick evasive answer"; "sly as a fox"; "tricky Dick"; "a wily old attorney"
intellectual
adj. appealing to or using the intellect; "satire is an intellectual weapon"; "intellectual workers engaged in creative literary or artistic or scientific labor"; "has tremendous intellectual sympathy for oppressed people"; "coldly intellectual"; "sort of the intellectual type"; "intellectual literature"
bookish, studious
adj. characterized by diligent study and fondness for reading; "a bookish farmer who always had a book in his pocket"; "a quiet studious child"
advisable
adj. worthy of being recommended or suggested; prudent or wise; "such action is neither necessary nor advisable"; "extreme caution is advisable"; "it is advisable to telephone first"
advantageous
adj. appropriate for achieving a particular end; implies a lack of concern for fairness
expedient
adj. serving to promote your interest; "was merciful only when mercy was expedient"
worldly-wise
adj. experienced in and wise to the ways of the world
becoming, comely, comme il faut, decent, decorous, seemly
adj. according with custom or propriety; "her becoming modesty"; "comely behavior"; "it is not comme il faut for a gentleman to be constantly asking for money"; "a decent burial"; "seemly behavior"
sage
adj. having wisdom that comes with age and experience
thoughtful
adj. having intellectual depth; "a deeply thoughtful essay"
wise
adj. having or prompted by wisdom or discernment; "a wise leader"; "a wise and perceptive comment"
conversant
adj. well informed about or familiar with; usu followed by "with": "conversant with business trends"
acquainted(p)
adj. having fair knowledge of; "they were acquainted"; "fully acquainted with the facts"
vigorous
adj. strong and active physically or mentally; "a vigorous old man who spent half of his day on horseback"- W.H.Hudson
hale, whole
adj. exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health; "hale and hearty"; "whole in mind and body"; "a whole person again"
fair, just
adj. free from favoritism or self-interest or bias or deception; conforming with established standards or rules; "a fair referee"; "fair deal"; "on a fair footing"; "a fair fight"; "by fair means or foul"
rational
adj. consistent with or based on or using reason; "rational behavior"; "a process of rational inference"; "rational thought"
analytic, analytical
adj. of a proposition that is necessarily true independent of fact or experience; "`all spinsters are unmarried' is an analytic proposition"
farseeing, farsighted, foresighted, foresightful, prospicient, long, longsighted
adj. planning prudently for the future; "large goals that required farsighted policies"; "took a long view of the geopolitical issues"
judicious, wise, heady
adj. marked by the exercise of good judgment or common sense in practical matters; "judicious use of one's money"; "a wise decision"
prescient
adj. perceiving the significance of events before they occur; "extraordinarily prescient memoranda on the probable course of postwar relations"-R.H.Rovere
prudent
adj. careful and sensible; marked by sound judgment; "a prudent manager"; "prudent rulers"; "prudent hesitation"; "more prudent to hide than to fight"
wise
adj. having or prompted by wisdom or discernment; "a wise leader"; "a wise and perceptive comment"
circumspect, discreet
adj. heedful of potential consequences; "circumspect actions"; "physicians are now more circumspect about recommending its use"; "a discreet investor"
sound
adj. free from moral defect; "a man of sound character"
sane
adj. mentally healthy; free from mental disorder; "appears to be completely sane"
balanced
adj. being in a state of proper equilibrium; "the carefully balanced seesaw"; "a properly balanced symphony orchestra"; "a balanced assessment of intellectual and cultural history"; "a balanced blend of whiskeys"; "the educated man shows a balanced development of all his powers"
cautious, conservative
adj. avoiding excess; "a conservative estimate"
true(a), lawful, rightful(a)
adj. having a legally established claim; "the legitimate heir"; "the true and lawful king"
legitimate
adj. in accordance with recognized or accepted standards or principles; "legitimate advertising practices"
legitimate, logical
adj. based on known statements or events or conditions; "rain was a logical expectation, given the time of year"
Synonyms (31)
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advanced, highly-developed
adj. ahead in development; complex or intricate; "advanced technology"; "a sophisticated electronic control system"
blase, worldly
adj. very sophisticated especially because of surfeit; versed in the ways of the world; "the blase traveler refers to the ocean he has crossed as `the pond'"; "the benefits of his worldly wisdom"
polished, refined, svelte, urbane
adj. showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience; "his polished manner"; "maintained an urbane tone in his letters"
agile, nimble
adj. mentally quick; "an agile mind"; "nimble wits"
quick-witted
adj. mentally nimble and resourceful; "quick-witted debater"; "saved an embarrassing situation with quick-witted tact"
apprehensive, discerning, perceptive
adj. quick to understand; "a kind and apprehensive friend"- Nathaniel Hawthorne
quick, ready
adj. apprehending and responding with speed and sensitivity; "a quick mind"; "a ready wit"
brainy, brilliant, smart as a whip
adj. having or marked by unusual and impressive intelligence; "some men dislike brainy women"; "a brilliant mind"; "a brilliant solution to the problem"
bright, smart
adj. characterized by quickness and ease in learning; "some children are brighter in one subject than another"; "smart children talk earlier than the average"
prehensile
adj. having a keen intellect; "poets--those gifted strangely prehensile men"- A.T.Quiller-Couch
searching, trenchant
adj. having keenness and forcefulness and penetration in thought, expression, or intellect; "searching insights"; "trenchant criticism"
scintillating
adj. brilliantly clever; "scintillating wit"; "a play full of scintillating dialogue"
commonsense, commonsensible, commonsensical
adj. exhibiting native good judgment; "arrive home at a reasonable hour"; "commonsense scholarship on the foibles of a genius"; "unlearned and commonsensical countryfolk were capable of solving problems that beset the more sophisticated"
logical
adj. based on known statements or events or conditions; "rain was a logical expectation, given the time of year"
tenable, well-founded
adj. based on sound reasoning or evidence; "well-founded suspicions"
Antonyms (8)
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unintelligent, stupid
adj. lacking intelligence; "a dull job with lazy and unintelligent co-workers"
stupid
adj. lacking or marked by lack of intellectual acuity
brainless, headless
adj. not using intelligence
mindless, reasonless, senseless
adj. not marked by the use of reason; "mindless violence"; "reasonless hostility"; "a senseless act"
intelligent
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