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intelligenter

intelligenter

English

Adjective

intelligenter

  1. (rare, proscribed) comparative form of intelligent: more intelligent
    • 1903, Marketing Communications, volume 42, page 41:
      The intelligenter the retailer is, the more goods he will sell in the course of a year.
    • 1951, Maud Huntley Jenks, Death Stalks the Philippine Wilds: Letters of Maud Huntley Jenks, Lund Press, page 161:
      “Well, I am intelligenter than you are anyway.”
    • Lisa A. Kirschenbaum, Constructing a Cold War Epic: Harrison Salisbury and the Siege of Leningrad in 2013, Choi Chatterjee, Beth Holmgren, Americans Experience Russia: Encountering the Enigma, 1917 to the Present, Routledge, page 67:
      [] to me the people of Leningrad seemed to walk more proudly, to be brisker, intelligenter [sic] []
    • 2013, Theodore Sturgeon, A Saucer of Loneliness, Gateway, page 161:
      If I am an amnesiac I could be even intelligenter as a fugitive.

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Pronunciation

Adjective

intelligenter

  1. comparative degree of intelligent