Intelligent
Intelligent adjective - Having or showing quickness of mind.
Telling and intelligent are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Telling" instead an adjective "Intelligent".
Telling
Telling adjective - Having the power to persuade.
Intelligent and telling are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Intelligent" instead an adjective "Telling".
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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An episode of Danny Phantom had the intelligent Jazz telling her fellow classmates that she was struggling on whether she wanted to go to Harvard, Yale, or Stanford.
Source: Intelligence Equals Isolation - According to Sayers, sufficiently intelligent readers will already know what the object is, so there's no point in telling you.
Source: You Know the One -
According to this telling the turning point came when an intelligent ape first said "no" to its master.
Source: Little "No"
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Telling and Intelligent. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 03, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/intelligent/telling
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Telling or Intelligent. 2016. Accessed August 03, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/intelligent/telling.
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