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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | well-educated, cultured |
| Synonyms: | brainy, cultivated, educated, highbrow, in the know, into*, knowledgeable, learned, lettered, literate, savvy, scholarly, scholastic, studious, well-read, wise up |
| Antonyms: | common, ignorant, uncultured, uneducated |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | highbrow |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | intellectual |
| Synonyms: | bookish, brainy, cerebral, cultivated, cultured, erudite, intellective, intelligent, learned, scholarly, studious, wise |
| Main Entry: | insightful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | perceptive |
| Synonyms: | alert, astute, awake, aware, brainy, conscious, cute, discerning, ear to the ground, intelligent, intuitive, keen, knowing, knowledgeable, knows what's what, observant, penetrating, penetrative, quick, responsive, savvy, sensitive, sharp, shrewd, smart, tuned in, understanding, wise |
| Main Entry: | intellectual |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very smart |
| Synonyms: | bookish, brainy, cerebral, creative, highbrow, highbrowed, intellective, intelligent, inventive, learned, mental, phrenic, psychological, rational, scholarly, studious, subjective, thoughtful |
| Antonyms: | foolish, ignorant, simple, stupid |
| Main Entry: | intelligent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very smart |
| Synonyms: | able, acute, alert, alive, all there, apt, astute, brainy, bright, brilliant, calculating, capable, clever, comprehending, creative, deep*, discerning, enlightened, exceptional, highbrow, imaginative, ingenious, instructed, inventive, keen, knowing, knowledgeable, original, penetrating, perceptive, perspicacious, profound, quick, quick-witted, rational, ready, reasonable, resourceful, responsible, sage, sharp, smart, thinking, together*, understanding, well-informed, whiz*, wise, witty |
| Notes: | people are intelligent; statements are intelligible |
| Antonyms: | foolish, idiotic, imbecile, stupid, unintelligent |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | knowing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | experienced, aware |
| Synonyms: | alive, apprehensive, astute, awake, brainy, bright, brilliant, canny, clever, cognizant, competent, conscious, conversant, cool*, crack*, deliberate, discerning, expert, insightful, intelligent, intended, intentional, judicious, knowledgeable, observant, perceptive, percipient, qualified, quick, quick-witted, sagacious, sage, sensible, sentient, sharp, skillful, slick*, smart, sophic, sophisticated, tuned-in, vigilant, watchful, well-informed, wise, with-it, witting, worldly, worldly-wise |
| Antonyms: | inexperienced, unaware, uncognizant, unknowing |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | knowledgeable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | aware, educated |
| Synonyms: | abreast, acquainted, alert, appreciative, apprised, au courant, au fait, brainy, bright, brilliant, clever, cognizant, conscious, conversant, discerning, erudite, experienced, familiar, in the know, informed, insightful, intelligent, knowing, learned, lettered, omniscient, perceptive, plugged in, posted, prescient, privy, quick-witted, sagacious, sage, savvy, scholarly, sensible, sharp, smart, sophic, sophisticated, tuned-in, understanding, versed, well-informed, well-rounded, wise, with-it |
| Antonyms: | ignorant, unaware, uneducated, uninformed |
| Main Entry: | learned |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | well-informed |
| Synonyms: | abstruse, academic, accomplished, bookish, brainy, conversant, cultivated, cultured, deep*, educated, erudite, esoteric, experienced, expert, grave, grounded, highbrow, in the know, intellectual, judicious, lettered, literary, literate, omniscient, pansophic, pedantic, philosophic, philosophical, polymath, posted, professorial, recondite, sage, sapient, scholarly, scientific, sharp, skilled, solemn, solid, sound, studied, studious, versed, well-educated, well-grounded, well-read, well-rounded |
| Antonyms: | ignorant, stupid, uninformed |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mental |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | concerning the mind |
| Synonyms: | brainy, cerebral, clairvoyant, deep, heavy, ideological, imaginative, immaterial, inner, intellective, intellectual, mysterious, phrenic, psychic, psychical, psychological, rational, reasoning, spiritual, subconscious, subjective, subliminal, telepathic, thinking, thoughtful, unreal |
| Antonyms: | body, physical |
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