Word Meanings - INTELLIGENCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act or state of knowing; the exercise of the understanding. 2. The capacity to know or understand; readiness of comprehension; the intellect, as a gift or an endowment. And dimmed with darkness their intelligence. Spenser. 3. Information

Additional info about word: INTELLIGENCE

1. The act or state of knowing; the exercise of the understanding. 2. The capacity to know or understand; readiness of comprehension; the intellect, as a gift or an endowment. And dimmed with darkness their intelligence. Spenser. 3. Information communicated; news; notice; advice. Intelligence is given where you are hid. Shak. 4. Acquaintance; intercourse; familiarity. He lived rather in a fair intelligence than any friendship with the favorites. Clarendon. 5. Knowledge imparted or acquired, whether by study, research, or experience; general information. I write as he that none intelligence Of meters hath, nCourt of Love. 6. An intelligent being or spirit; -- generally applied to pure spirits; as, a created intelligence. Milton. The great Intelligences fair That range above our mortal state, In circle round the blessed gate, Received and gave him welcome there. Tennyson. Intelligence office, an office where information may be obtained, particularly respecting servants to be hired. Syn. -- Understanding; intellect; instruction; advice; notice; notification; news; information; report.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INTELLIGENCE)

• Consciousness
• Sense
• sensation
• intelligence
• perception
• Judgment
• Decision
• determination
• adjudication
• sagacity
• penetration
• judiciousness
• sense
• intellect
• belief
• estimation
• opinion
• verdict
• sentence
• discernment
• discrimination
• prudence
• award
• condemnation
• Spirit
• Air
• breath
• life
• soul
• vital force
• essential quality
• essence
• immateriality
• disembodiment
• spectre
• apparition
• ghost
• energy
• ardor
• enthusiasm
• activity
• earnestness
• courage
• zeal
• disposition
• temper
• principle
• motive
• distillation
• Tidings
• News
• announcement
• information
• rumor
• report
• advice
• Understanding
• Knowledge
• interpretation
• construction
• agreement
• mind
• conception
• reason
• brains

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of INTELLIGENCE)

• Silence
• hush
• suppress
• misreport
• misrepresent
• miarelate
• falsify

Related words: (words related to INTELLIGENCE)

• BREATHE
  Etym: 1. To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live. "I am in health, I breathe." Shak. Breathes there a man with soul so dead Sir W. Scott. 2. To take breath; to rest from action. Well! breathe awhile, and then to it again! Shak. 3.
• FORCE
  To stuff; to lard; to farce. Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit. Shak.
• JUDGMENT
  The final award; the last sentence. Note: Judgment, abridgment, acknowledgment, and lodgment are in England sometimes written, judgement, abridgement, acknowledgement, and lodgement. Note: Judgment is used adjectively in many self-explaining
• SPIRITUOUS
  1. Having the quality of spirit; tenuous in substance, and having active powers or properties; ethereal; immaterial; spiritual; pure. 2. Containing, or of the nature of, alcoholic spirit; consisting of refined spirit; alcoholic; ardent;
• SENSE
  A faculty, possessed by animals, of perceiving external objects by means of impressions made upon certain organs (sensory or sense organs) of the body, or of perceiving changes in the condition of the body; as, the senses of sight, smell, hearing,
• OPINIONATOR
  An opinionated person; one given to conjecture. South.
• ADVICE
  Counseling to perform a specific illegal act. Wharton. Advice boat, a vessel employed to carry dispatches or to reconnoiter; a dispatch boat. -- To take advice. To accept advice. To consult with another or others. Syn. -- Counsel; suggestion;
• DISEMBODIMENT
  The act of disembodying, or the state of being disembodied.
• TEMPER SCREW
  1. A screw link, to which is attached the rope of a rope-drilling apparatus, for feeding and slightly turning the drill jar at each stroke. 2. A set screw used for adjusting.
• REASONING
  1. The act or process of adducing a reason or reasons; manner of presenting one's reasons. 2. That which is offered in argument; proofs or reasons when arranged and developed; course of argument. His reasoning was sufficiently profound. Macaulay.
• DISTILLATION
  The separation of the volatile parts of a substance from the more fixed; specifically, the operation of driving off gas or vapor from volatile liquids or solids, by heat in a retort or still, and the condensation of the products as far as possible
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• ACTIVITY
  The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human activities. "The activity of toil." Palfrey. Syn. -- Liveliness; briskness; quickness.
• SPIRITUALIZE
  To extract spirit from; also, to convert into, or impregnate with, spirit. (more info) 1. To refine intellectiually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to; as, to spiritualize
• GHOSTLESS
  Without life or spirit.
• TIDINGS
  Account of what has taken place, and was not before known; news. I shall make my master glad with these tidings. Shak. Full well the busy whisper, circling round, Conveyed the dismal tidings when he frowned. Goldsmith. Note: Although tidings is
• MISREPORT
  To report erroneously; to give an incorrect account of. Locke.
• SPIRITUOSITY
  The quality or state of being spirituous; spirituousness.
• REASONLESS
  1. Destitute of reason; as, a reasonless man or mind. Shak. 2. Void of reason; not warranted or supported by reason; unreasonable. This proffer is absurd and reasonless. Shak.
• QUALITY
  1. The condition of being of such and such a sort as distinguished from others; nature or character relatively considered, as of goods; character; sort; rank. We lived most joyful, obtaining acquaintance with many of the city not of the meanest
• PUBLIC-SPIRITED
  1. Having, or exercising, a disposition to advance the interest of the community or public; as, public-spirited men. 2. Dictated by a regard to public good; as, a public-spirited project or measure. Addison. -- Pub"lic-spir`it*ed*ly,
• SUPERCONCEPTION
  Superfetation. Sir T. Browne.
• PREKNOWLEDGE
  Prior knowledge.
• UNPRUDENCE
  Imprudence.
• INSENSE
  To make to understand; to instruct. Halliwell.
• DISTEMPERATE
  1. Immoderate. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. Diseased; disordered. Wodroephe.
• REINFORCEMENT
  See REëNFORCEMENT
• ACCOURAGE
  To encourage.
• DISPIRITED
  Depressed in spirits; disheartened; daunted. -- Dis*pir"it*ed*ly, adv. -- Dis*pir"it*ed, n.
• REVITALIZE
  To restore vitality to; to bring back to life. L. S. Beale.