2020-10-22
ศัพท์ น่าสับสน ชุด I – Intelligent intellectual
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Dictionary.com
ออกเสียง Intelligent = ‘in-TEL-i-juhnt’
ออกเสียง intellectual = ‘in-tl-EK-choo-uhl’
Dictionary.com
SYNONYM STUDY FOR INTELLIGENT
Intelligent, intellectual describe distinctive mental capacity.
Intelligent often suggests a natural quickness of understanding:
an intelligent reader.
Intellectual implies not only having a high degree of understanding,
but also a capacity and taste for the higher forms of knowledge:
intellectual interests.
2. See sharp.
Abused, Confused, & Misused Words by Mary Embree
intelligent
wise, shrewd, having the capacity for thought and reason:
The professor is an intelligent man.
Not to be confused with:
intelligible – well articulated or enunciated and loud enough to be heard; can be understood: He was an intelligible speaker.
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language
in·tel′li·gen′tial (-jĕn′shəl) adj.
in·tel′li·gent·ly adv.
Synonyms: intelligent, bright, brilliant, smart, intellectual
These adjectives mean having or showing mental keenness.
Intelligent usually implies the ability to cope with new problems
and to use the power of reasoning and inference effectively:
The company put its most intelligent engineers to work on rectifying the design flaw.
Bright implies quickness or ease in learning:
She was a bright student who was soon at the head of the class.
Brilliant suggests unusually impressive mental acuteness:
"The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end" (Max Beerbohm).
Smart refers to quick intelligence and often a ready capability for taking care of one's own interests:
You were smart to buy your house when prices were low.
Intellectual implies the capacity to grasp difficult or abstract concepts:
The former professor was the more intellectual candidate.
Dictionary of Problem Words and Expression
Intelligent intellectual
An Intelligentperson is quick to comprehend and understand,
has a high mental capacity, has the ability to reason clearly.
An Intellectualperson has not only a high degree of understanding but also a clear, distinct, and active taste and capacity for higher forms of knowledge.
An animal can be Intelligentbut not Intellectual;
a distinguished professor is Intellectual and is presumed to be Intelligent.
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Intellection
Smart is an Old English-derived word; intellectual is a Latin-derived word.
Like most synonyms, they overlap rather than duplicate meanings.
And like most pairs of words with one each from these particular family groups,
the one with roots in Old English is the everyday, household word(“knowledgeable”) while the one with Latin roots is more fancy and hifalutin (“chiefly guided by the intellect rather than emotion”).
There is a related and arguably fancier word meaning “thinking”:
intellection. Intellection means“the act of the intellect” or “exercise of the intellect,”
a synonym of thought and reasoning.
The greater emotional distance of many Latin-derived words in English makes intellection a perfect term for dispassionate analysis,
and has been usedin theological writing and literary criticism for centuries:
The several opinions of philosophers concerning the manner how intellection is wrought or produced.— Thomas Jackson, A treatise containing the originall of vnbeliefe, misbeliefe, or misperswasions concerning the veritie, vnitie, and attributes of the Deitie, 1625
But time and again in her first two essay collections, Against Interpretation and Styles of Radical Will, she argued for a more sensuous, less intellectual approach to art. It was an irony lost on no one, except perhaps her, that she made those arguments in paragraphs that were marvels of strenuous intellection.— Richard Lacayo, TIME, 10 January 2005
Outside of these contexts, intellection serves a way of emphasizing thought or thinking in a positive way and contrasting it with the alternative:
Rather, [the fidget spinner] enables and even encourages the setting of one’s own interests above everyone else’s. It induces solipsism, selfishness, and outright rudeness. It does not, as the Rubik’s Cube does, reward higher-level intellection.— Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 12 May 2017
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Choose the Right Synonym for intelligent
INTELLIGENT, CLEVER, ALERT, QUICK-WITTED
mean mentally keen or quick.
INTELLIGENT stresses success in coping with new situations and solving problems. an intelligent person could assemble it fast
CLEVER implies native ability or aptness and sometimes suggests a lack of more substantial qualities. clever with words
ALERT stresses quickness in perceiving and understanding. alert to new technology
QUICK-WITTED implies promptness in finding answers in debate or in devising expedients in moments of danger or challenge. no match for his quick-witted opponent
Choose the Right Synonym for intelligent
INTELLIGENT, CLEVER, and BRILLIANT
mean having a good amount of mental ability.
INTELLIGENT is used of a person who can handle new situations and solve problems. We need an intelligent person to run the company.
CLEVER is used of a person who learns very quickly. The clever youngster learned the trick in a few minutes.
BRILLIANT is used of a person whose mental ability is much greater than normal. A brilliant doctor discovered the cure for that disease.
