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Scholar vs Intelligent - What's the difference?

scholar | intelligent |

As a noun scholar

is a student; one who studies at school or college.

As an adjective intelligent is

of high or especially quick cognitive capacity, bright.

scholar

English

(Scholarly method)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A student; one who studies at school or college.
  • A specialist in a particular branch of knowledge.
  • A learned person; a bookman.
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    • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= The Evolution of Eyeglasses , passage=The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,

    Derived terms

    * independent scholar * scholarly * scholarship

    Related terms

    * scholiast

    See also

    * savant

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    Anagrams

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    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