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intelligent (adj.)[intelligent 词源字典]: 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.[intelligent etymology, intelligent origin, 英语词源]
unintelligent (adj.): c. 1600, from un- (1) "not" + intelligent (adj.). Related: Unintelligently.