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What is the adjective for intelligent?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs intellectualize and intellectualise which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

intellectual
  1. Belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental or cognitive.
  2. Endowed with intellect; having the power of understanding; having capacity for the higher forms of knowledge or thought; characterized by intelligence or mental capacity
  3. Suitable for exercising the intellect; formed by, and existing for, the intellect alone; perceived by the intellect
  4. Relating to the understanding; treating of the mind.
  5. (archaic, poetic) Spiritual.
  6. Synonyms:
      7. cerebral, academic, intelligent, learned, scholarly, bookish, erudite, clever, highbrow, knowledgeable, studious, brainy, lettered, literary, civilised, civilized, cultivated, cultured, donnish, enlightened, highbrowed, intellectualist, intellectualistic, psychologic, rational, scholastic, sophisticated, clerkly, creative, eggheaded, geeky, genius, intellective, blue, inventive, nerdish, nerdy, thoughtful, very smart, well educated, well read, well-read, widely read, educated, smart, wise, sharp, discerning, bright, astute … more
  7. Examples:
      8. “Blake is a secret agent brimming with intellectual genius, a striking appearance, and impeccable acting skills.”
      “The global health focus offered academics intellectual stimulation and prestige.”
      “Don't use such chatter as an easy excuse to avoid the usual intellectual dive needed to understand what this development means.”
intelligent
  1. Of high or especially quick cognitive capacity, bright.
  2. Well thought-out, well considered.
  3. Characterized by thoughtful interaction.
  4. Having the same level of brain power as mankind.
  5. Having an environment-sensing automatically-invoked built-in computer capability.
  6. Synonyms:
      7. clever, bright, smart, quick, sharp, brilliant, acute, alert, astute, penetrating, keen, apt, brainy, discerning, intellectual, knowledgeable, perspicacious, quick-witted, canny, genius, perceptive, thinking, wise, able, gifted, ingenious, inventive, knowing, rational, resourceful, enlightened, exceptional, fast, logical, sage, sharp-witted, talented, well-informed, precocious, profound, sagacious, scholarly, supersmart, whip-smart, alive, calculating, capable, cerebral, comprehending, creative … more
  7. Examples:
      8. “Steve was an intelligent individual who combined his brilliance and intuition to deadly effect.”
      “Brittany was an intelligent person with an uncanny ability to predict future trends.”
      “The twin brothers' underestimated how intelligent Mark was when they shared their secret idea with him.”
intellective
  1. Of, related to, or caused by the intellect.
  2. Having the capacity to reason and understand.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. psychic, mental, psychological, cognitive, intellectual, spiritual, cerebral, psychogenic, emotional, intuitive, phrenic, psychal, psychiatric, psychical, psychosomatic, mindly, thinking, rational, brain, intrapersonal, reasoning, brainy, perceptive, thought, psychologic, theoretical, conceptual, subconscious, subliminal, ideological, thoughtful, imaginative, analytical, logical, intelligent, internal, ratiocinative, reasonable, learning, interior, inner, innermost, subjective, discriminating, knowing, reflective, abstract, dianoetic, discursive … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “This distinction between creative and computational tasks parallels the distinction between judgmental and intellective tasks.”
      “The opposite is argued, because at least the creation of our intellective soul is instantaneous.”
      “Try to read them as speaking primarily to the imaginative and active energies and only secondarily to the intellective ones.”
intellected
  1. Endowed with intellect; having intellectual powers or capacities.
intelligible
  1. Capable of being understood; clear to the mind.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. comprehensible, understandable, clear, coherent, plain, lucid, fathomable, graspable, unambiguous, apprehensible, comprehendible, simple, distinct, accessible, explicit, legible, obvious, perspicuous, transparent, unmistakable, digestible, scrutable, luminous, unequivocal, logical, penetrable, knowable, precise, user friendly, user-friendly, crystal clear, easy to understand, self-explanatory, straightforward, readable, explicable, decipherable, clear-cut, pellucid, articulate, accountable, manifest, evident, luculent, palpable, explainable, direct, sharp, clearly expressed, unambivalent … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Several seconds passed before the communication was decrypted and became intelligible.”
      “Language is a unifying factor, as Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish are mutually intelligible languages.”
      “Old English and Old Norse were related and to some extent mutually intelligible.”
intellectualistic
  1. Of or relating to intellectualism.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. intellectual, cerebral, intellectualist, eggheaded, geeky, highbrow, highbrowed, nerdish, nerdy, blue, longhair, long-haired, intelligent, learned, scholarly, brainy, erudite, clever, academic, bookish, knowledgeable, studious, genius, lettered, enlightened, donnish, cultured, cultivated, clerkly, intellective, inventive, well read, very smart, well educated, widely read, smart, bright, precocious, educated, egghead, wise, bluestocking, well informed, literary, civilized, sophisticated, psychologic, scholastic, rational, creative … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “What we can say is that all these interpretations reveal an intellectualistic conception of the connections between perception and knowledge.”
      “The second, most clearly expounded by Aquinas, is an intellectualistic view.”
      “That is why we are interested in it, and this is also a source of pleasure, not purely intellectualistic, but material and emotional too.”
intelligential
  1. Of or pertaining to intelligence.
intellectuall
  1. Obsolete form of intellectual.
intelligencelike
  1. Resembling intelligence.
intellectualish
  1. (informal) Somewhat intellectual.
intelligenter
  1. (rare, proscribed) comparative form of intelligent: more intelligent
  2. Examples:
      3. “The intelligenter the retailer is, the more goods he will sell in the course of a year.”
      “If I am an amnesiac I could be even intelligenter as a fugitive.”
intelligentest
  1. (rare, proscribed) superlative form of intelligent: most intelligent
intellectualized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of intellectualize
  2. Synonyms:
      3. thought, pondered, reflected, deliberated, considered, contemplated, analyzed, debated, dwelled, dwelt, evaluated, figured out, meditated, reasoned, ruminated, understood, analysed, appraised, apprehended, brainstormed, brooded, cogitated, comprehended, concentrated, discerned, examined, figured, intellectualised, minded, mused, processed, rationalised, speculated, stewed, studied, weighed, wondered, cerebrated, chewed, ideated, logicalized, mulled, puzzled over, racked brains, rationalized, sorted out, excogitated, lucubrated, put on thinking cap, used one's head … more
intellectualizing
  1. present participle of intellectualize
  2. Synonyms:
      3. rationalising, rationalizing, pragmatizing, reasoning, analysing, analyzing, cogitating, resolving, cerebrating, clarifying, elucidating, logicalizing, unraveling, unravelling, logicizing, making consistent, applying logic to, applying reasoning to, thinking logically, thinking rationally, thinking straight, deliberating, ruminating, evaluating, comprehending, using one's head, putting on thinking cap, pondering, reflecting, ratiocinating, conceiving, estimating, considering, stewing, meditating, musing, examining, studying, appraising, brooding, ideating, mulling, weighing, speculating, contemplating, racking brains, figuring out, sorting out, thinking things through, dwelling … more
intellectualised
  1. simple past tense and past participle of intellectualise
  2. Synonyms:
      3. thought, pondered, reflected, deliberated, considered, contemplated, analyzed, debated, dwelled, dwelt, evaluated, figured out, meditated, reasoned, ruminated, understood, analysed, appraised, apprehended, brainstormed, brooded, cogitated, comprehended, concentrated, discerned, examined, figured, minded, mused, processed, rationalised, speculated, stewed, studied, weighed, wondered, cerebrated, chewed, ideated, intellectualized, logicalized, mulled, puzzled over, racked brains, rationalized, sorted out, excogitated, lucubrated, put on thinking cap, used one's head … more
intellectualising
  1. present participle of intellectualise
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