adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an intelligent guess
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Analysis of the archaeological site will help us make an intelligent guess as to what it was used for.
intelligent design
intelligent/conscious/rational etc being
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a story about alien beings who invade Earth
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
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She thought of herself as intelligent and had been called so.
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Some people think that an uncreative individual can not properly be regarded as intelligent , and others strongly disagree.
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Masklin always said that they're nearly as intelligent as we are.
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Summary statements are useful in everyday speech, where we are continually describing people as intelligent or aggressive or generous or nice.
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Strangers will be less intimidating, as intelligent badges will swap information that helps you find a compatible person.
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You must be at least as intelligent as me.
highly
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Baboons are highly intelligent animals and learn to satisfy their biological needs in many often diverse ways.
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A highly intelligent , highly motivated, and extremely personable young woman, Crystal has had numerous supports along the way.
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Now as then, Gielgud is acute, highly intelligent and concerned to help draw a full portrait.
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City Hall insiders described Cruz as highly intelligent and ultrasensitive to minority issues.
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Alix seemed to her to be both practical and highly intelligent .
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By the time she was ready to go, this highly intelligent and capable woman spoke the language fluently.
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Loved to talk: never boring. Highly intelligent - read a great deal.
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First, that rugby players are a highly intelligent , dedicated and wise bunch.
less
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In January a national poll found that most whites think blacks are lazy, less intelligent and less patriotic than whites are.
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A less intelligent and less secure judge might have permitted the defense to explore these avenues.
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Your Watson, then, needs to be just a little less intelligent than you conceive your readers as being.
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A side-effect of this automation was that the network became less intelligent , albeit much cheaper to run.
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That departure to university of a man far less intelligent than himself had been a blow to Stephen.
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They were less intelligent , but more sympathetic, providing the glue that held the family together.
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Macaques and other less intelligent primates have not yet displayed the self-recognition abilities of apes and humans.
more
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Another runner more intelligent than most, mingled exclusively with the dealers.
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A flurry of hands from the more eager, more intelligent first graders.
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I mentioned earlier that he was like Slim - more intelligent and caring than most, and very different.
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These new assistants are more intelligent than their predecessors.
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I couldn't have been more fortunate in working with two more intelligent and delightful men.
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It is the need to outwit and dupe and help and teach one another that drove us to be ever more intelligent .
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It's more intelligent than Trivial Pursuit and noisier than Charades.
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She had never met a handsomer man, or one more intelligent .
most
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But Tobermory is a most intelligent cat.
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Does this sound like the rational act of the most intelligent species on the planet?
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Many a time he commented upon the mental rapport he found with his most intelligent animals.
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For all his eccentricity, he had impressed me as a most intelligent man.
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As far as she knew porpoises were the most intelligent .
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The threat was that if reform failed, one of their liveliest, most intelligent , and often wealthiest constituencies would withdraw.
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The most intelligent of people have heart attacks as well as the stupid ones.
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He, too, has been questioned but he is not the most intelligent of men, or the best of horse-riders.
quite
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He'd always believed that humans were quite intelligent .
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He was not intellectual or scholarly, but nevertheless quite intelligent .
so
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He's so intelligent that I don't think he would even take his glasses off before doing it.
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They're so intelligent and full of character.
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How could a man so intelligent in every other way be so obtuse when it came to ordinary everyday living?
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How could I ever listen to office gossip even in bed and find it so intelligent ?
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Squids are so intelligent and swift-moving that they must find little difficulty in avoiding man's clumsy deep-sea dredges.
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She thought of Miguel, stern, slightly stuffy at times, yet so kind and so intelligent .
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Do we need this old Graeco-Roman game - like Eliot's Shakespeherian rag, so elegant, so intelligent ?
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Amazing how some one so intelligent can be stupid enough to think such hypocrisy would pass unnoticed.
too
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A mug's game, because her mind was blurred and Jessica was far too intelligent , and caught her drift immediately.
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Beth is too intelligent not to realize that she has been snubbed.
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But he was too intelligent not to have a conscience.
very
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He would never have found me, because he was not very intelligent .
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Oh yes, very intelligent , almost an intellectual.
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Still, Brown's impeccable exercises in style are highly engaging, visually spectacular and very intelligent .
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A news media-ignored but very intelligent and articulate movement is afoot to bring this information to everyone.
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I was not feeling very intelligent .
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He was only 27, amusing, very intelligent and talented and will be deeply missed by those who knew him.
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Because Bruce is really very intelligent .
■ NOUN
agent
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Could we redesign companies in a completely new light using the negotiation skills and information-filtering of intelligent agents ?
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No, no one in my country was quite clever enough to program intelligent agents .
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The simplest idea is that the ad contains intelligent agents that communicate with your agents to determine your likes and dislikes.
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In the meantime, though, people are the only intelligent agents in the computer world.
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Firstly, intelligent agents will become ubiquitous.
being
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He took me to the farmer, who soon realized that I was not an animal, but an intelligent being .
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Maybe some other race of intelligent beings elsewhere in the galaxy will achieve a better balance between responsibility and aggression.
face
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I have to look at an intelligent face .
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Glover completely approved of most of them, of their long, loose legs and intelligent faces .
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Erica Lucas was five feet six, with a thin, strong, intelligent face .
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He had a square, intelligent face and a quiet manner which exuded self-confidence.
life
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It decrees that intelligent life in some way selects out its own actual universe from a variety of possible alternatives.
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Yes, well, I suppose they also told you that intelligent life has been found on Mars?
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You have to know about stuff like this or your program is going to claim it's found intelligent life on Mars.
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Two years ago, we discovered the first evidence for intelligent life outside the Earth.
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Obviously there is pleasure in watching Hollywood recognise intelligent life in the typing pool.
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Most of these universes will not provide the right conditions for the development of the complicated structures needed for intelligent life .
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However, a strong thermodynamic arrow is necessary for intelligent life to operate.
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Thus intelligent life could not exist in the contracting phase of the universe.
man
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He cited as an example an intelligent man who had been disabled.
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Just as I was warming to the subject, I noticed that this handsome, intelligent man was finishing my sentences.
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He was not a very intelligent man; intelligent men do not go to prison with such sad regularity.
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For all his eccentricity, he had impressed me as a most intelligent man .
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What would have made an intelligent man do that?
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I decided that it would be a Colonel Shelhi, a very intelligent man and a great admirer of Colonel Nasser.
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He was a weaker and more intelligent man than Teixeira.
people
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Councillors should be treated as intelligent people who make decisions based on information.
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The Romans felt that work demeaned intelligent people .
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It is true that if some one talks to intelligent people regularly and is well informed and advised, then much is absorbed.
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But there are intelligent people out there.
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The young, intelligent people feel a great sense of betrayal, even those who at first believed in all this.
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Most intelligent people who have not accepted Freudian indoctrination will ask him to tell that to the Marines.
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Not just brilliance but a form of autism only now recognised in intelligent people .
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I have dealt with reasonably intelligent people who have discovered that they could have claimed more money.
person
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It's surprising how many mistakes an otherwise intelligent person can make when left to execute a document unaided.
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This Auster was the first intelligent person he had spoken to in a long time.
question
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The art, according to Finniston, is to ask intelligent questions and look for inconsistencies.
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I like people to ask me intelligent questions and I will answer intelligently.
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She spoke about it at length and Richard asked intelligent questions .
use
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Cameron continued to make intelligent use of the ball.
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The horse has to be taught to answer the aids correctly by intelligent use of the aids and instant reward of obedience.
woman
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I should have explained that she was an intelligent woman .
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He had always enjoyed the company of intelligent women , and if they were pretty, then so much the better.
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Demonstrating my attractiveness to a young intelligent woman in competition with young attractive males had become almost an obsession of mine.
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Everything just so ... Julia is an attractive and intelligent woman in her early thirties.
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Although her plan to import earnest and intelligent women failed, she did learn how to work the land.
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Despite her handicaps Helen was an attractive, intelligent woman , and must have had many suitors.
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She was acting like some idiotic schoolgirl, not an intelligent woman , she thought in exasperation.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"We're looking for highly intelligent young people, with a genuine interest in their subject," a university spokesman said.
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an intelligent decision
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Anne was surprised to hear such an intelligent question coming from a very small child.
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Do you think there are intelligent life forms on other planets?
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Have you got any intelligent suggestions to make?
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Mark was an intelligent , ambitious young man, with a great future in front of him.
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Some scientists claim that dolphins are more intelligent than humans.
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Vlasic is a very intelligent player.