intelligent
/ɪnˈtɛlɪd͡ʒənt/ adjective A2- Of high or especially quick cognitive capacity, bright.
- Well thought-out, well considered. · The engineer had a very intelligent design proposal for the new car.· The general devised an intelligent strategy for the southern campaign.
- Characterized by thoughtful interaction. · My girlfriend and I had an intelligent conversation.
- Having at least a similar level of brain power to humankind. · The hunt for extraterrestrial intelligent life continues.
- Having an environment-sensing automatically-invoked built-in computer capability. · an intelligent network or keyboard
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Ali turned his intelligent countenance towards the boy, on whom he gazed without any apparent emotion; but the spasmodic working of the nostrils showed to the practiced eye of Monte Cristo that the Arab had been wounded to the heart.
Renée regarded him with fond affection; and certainly his handsome features, lit up as they then were with more than usual fire and animation, seemed formed to excite the innocent admiration with which she gazed on her graceful and intelligent lover.
What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant?
While affecting to be deeply engaged in examining the ladder, the mind of Dantès was, in fact, busily occupied by the idea that a person so intelligent, ingenious, and clear-sighted as the abbé might probably be able to solve the dark mystery of his own misfortunes, where he himself could see nothing.
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