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{
"term": "intelligent",
"partOfSpeech": "adjective",
"academic": true,
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "a2",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "good at learning, understanding and thinking in a logical way about things; showing this ability",
"labels": "(especially North American English)especially British English",
"cefr": "a2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "a **highly intelligent** child"
},
{
"text": "She is clearly extremely intelligent."
},
{
"text": "to have an intelligent conversation/discussion/debate"
},
{
"text": "to ask an intelligent question"
},
{
"text": "He should be able to solve the problem. He's reasonably intelligent."
},
{
"text": "Why do otherwise intelligent people take this event so seriously?"
},
{
"text": "a highly intelligent woman"
},
{
"text": "He's a highly intelligent man."
},
{
"text": "She asked a lot of intelligent questions."
}
],
"topics": ["Personal qualities"],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "look", "seem"],
"adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "able to understand and learn things",
"cefr": "a2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "Elephants are intelligent creatures and enjoy interacting with humans."
},
{
"text": "a search for intelligent life on other planets"
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "able to store information and use it in new situations",
"labels": "(computing)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "intelligent robots/algorithms"
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈtelɪdʒənt/",
"audio": "in/intelligent/intelligent__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈtelɪdʒənt/",
"audio": "in/intelligent/intelligent__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "early 16th cent.: from Latin intelligent- ‘understanding’, from the verb intelligere, variant of intellegere ‘understand’, from inter ‘between’ + legere ‘choose’."
}