intelligenter

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A form of intelligent — Of high or especially quick cognitive capacity, bright.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

adjective
  1. comparativehumorousotherwise rare and proscribedcomparative form of intelligent: more intelligent

    Well, I am intelligenter than you are anyway.

    1951, Maud Huntley Jenks, Death Stalks the Philippine Wilds: Letters of Maud Huntley Jenks, Lund Press, page 161
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    The intelligenter the retailer is, the more goods he will sell in the course of a year.

    1903, Marketing Communications, volume 42, page 41

    […] to me the people of Leningrad seemed to walk more proudly, to be brisker, intelligenter [sic] […]

    Lisa A. Kirschenbaum, Constructing a Cold War Epic: Harrison Salisbury and the Siege of Leningrad in 2013, Choi Chatterjee, Beth Holmgren, Americans Experience Russia: Encountering the Enigma, 1917 to the Present, Routledge, page 67

    If I am an amnesiac I could be even intelligenter as a fugitive.

    2013, Theodore Sturgeon, A Saucer of Loneliness, Gateway, page 161
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