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Intelligent vs Smartly - What's the difference?

intelligent | smartly |

As an adjective intelligent

is of high or especially quick cognitive capacity, bright.

As an adverb smartly is

in a smart manner.

intelligent

English

Alternative forms

* entelligent

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • Of high or especially quick cognitive capacity, bright.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1927, author= F. E. Penny
  • , chapter=5, title= Pulling the Strings , passage=Anstruther laughed good-naturedly. “[…] I shall take out half a dozen intelligent maistries from our Press and get them to give our villagers instruction when they begin work and when they are in the fields.”}}
  • Well thought-out, well considered.
  • Characterized by thoughtful interaction.
  • Having the same level of brain power as mankind.
  • Having an environment-sensing automatically-invoked built-in computer capability.
  • Synonyms

    * See also

    Antonyms

    * stupid

    smartly

    English

    Adverb

    (-)
  • In a smart manner.
  • :
  • Quickly.
  • *
  • *:She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realising that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.
  • Intelligently.