{
    "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’."
}