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Antonyms for intelligently

Grammar : Adv
Spell : in-tel-i-juhnt
Phonetic Transcription : ɪnˈtɛl ɪ dʒənt

Definition of intelligently

Origin :
  • c.1500, a back-formation from intelligence or else from Latin intelligentem (nominative intelligens), present participle of intelligere, earlier intellegere (see intelligence). Intelligent design, as a name for an alternative to atheistic cosmology and the theory of evolution, is from 1999. Related: Intelligently.
  • adv cleverly
Example sentences :
  • The truth should be told: Wiseli was able and willing to work, and did so, well and intelligently.
  • Extract from : « Rico and Wiseli » by Johanna Spyri
  • If you would work half as hard and half as intelligently as he does you would have half his luck.
  • Extract from : « Herbert Hoover » by Vernon Kellogg
  • I want to serve him, but to do this intelligently I must know him.'
  • Extract from : « Against Odds » by Lawrence L. Lynch
  • Mrs. Gould was too intelligently sympathetic not to share that feeling.
  • Extract from : « Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard » by Joseph Conrad
  • The other murmured something in a voice that did not intelligently reach the planting.
  • Extract from : « Gilian The Dreamer » by Neil Munro
  • But for his daughter, indeed, he would hardly have set about it intelligently.
  • Extract from : « The Two Admirals » by J. Fenimore Cooper
  • A Pennsylvanian not only could do it, but did it willingly, practically, and intelligently.
  • Extract from : « The Education of Henry Adams » by Henry Adams
  • But there must be some kind, if the matter is to be intelligently discussed.
  • Extract from : « The Arena » by Various
  • They cooperated quite willingly, if not always too intelligently.
  • Extract from : « A Slave is a Slave » by Henry Beam Piper
  • By this means we clergymen are able to intelligently warn our flocks.
  • Extract from : « Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 » by Elbert Hubbard

Synonyms for intelligently

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