Name: 10 Ways To Describe Intelligent People | Improve Your English Speaking | Vocabulary & Phrases
Uploaded: 2020-03-18T22:31:41.000Z
Duration: 12 min 34 s
Description: Thousands of YouTube videos with English-Chinese subtitles! Now you can learn to understand native speakers, expand your vocabulary, and improve your pronunciation...

We love being around intelligent people, someone who's very knowledgeable, someone who's really smart and clever.

Gerund

But when it comes to talking or appreciating these intelligent people, how do you do that in English?

To-infinitive

Well, in today's lesson, we will have a look at certain adjectives and certain expressions that would help you to talk about intelligent people.

Well, today we are gonna look at some adjectives and certain expressions that would help you to talk about intelligent people.

Like I said that we all love being around intelligent people.

So talking about them and appreciating their abilities is essential.

Well, someone who has the ability to take accurate decisions.

Okay, so someone who is really smart enough to take good decisions and it's because that person has a lot of experience.

There are times when we can't make our own decisions.

We're so dependent on someone, like, I believe that my father is such a wise person.

Well, because he has a lot of experience.

He's intelligent, he's knowledgeable, and, because of his experience, he is able to make good decisions.

So I would say that my father is really wise.

Okay, so that's how you can use this word.

It's a great adjective to be used for an intelligent and experienced person.

Moving on to another adjective that I have for you is: bright. 

Well, no. Here, this adjective bright is a perfect adjective for an intelligent student.

It's usually used for young people—people who are doing really well at school or in their careers.

So it's great to be used for young, intelligent people.

So, you know, like, for example, my little cousin, like, she's just 15 and she is such a bright child.

So, which means that she is doing so well or she's just great.

She's intelligent, she's smart, and she's doing really well at school.

So it's a great adjective that can be used for young, intelligent people.

Moving on to another adjective, which is: discerning.

So when you use this, well, you can use this adjective for a person who shows or has a very good judgment for various things like for arts, for books, for music, for movies.

So someone who's really smart and can identify what is good and what is bad, okay?

Of course, the credit goes to his or her intelligence or because of his or her intelligence, that person is able to make good judgments.

So someone who has or shows good judgment over things like art, music, movies, books, etc., okay?

It's, again, an English adjective for you, which is: clear-sighted.

Well, here, when you are talking about intelligent people, you can use this adjective clear-sighted, which means someone who thinks and understand things clearly, who is very sensible.

For example, my company has hired a new director who is so clear-sighted.

So, which means that he understands, he's very sensible enough—

He's clever, smart, and, of course, intelligent, so he's gonna do a great job for the company's future, okay?

So, use this for a person who's extremely sensible and knowledgeable, clear-sighted, okay?

Now, boffin is not an adjective—it is a British slang.

Well, boffin is usually a person who is engaged in technical jobs.

So someone who is an expert when it comes to computers, when it comes to technical work.

I can ask him anything about the computer because he is just genius.

He is an expert when it comes to computers.

Well, my cousin John is a computer boffin, okay?

So which means that he is a genius and expert when it comes to technical work.

So here are the four adjectives, one slang for you, a British slang term for you, boffin.

And now let's move on to certain expressions that you can use for smart people.

So someone who thinks quickly, acts quickly, and learns quickly.

So, yes, if you know someone—your friend or a family member—who can just do things perfectly, learns quickly, acts quickly, and, of course, is smart, then he is sharp as a tack.

But trust me, he is sharp as a tack, so which means he is still really smart and intelligent.

So someone who does thinks quickly, okay?

Moving on to the next expression that I have for you is: blinds you with science.

There are certain people who have so much of knowledge about the technical world.

And you get really confused—so someone who just confuses you with a lot of difficult technical words.

Then that person blinds you with science, like, again, one of my friend...

He belongs to the technical world—well, he is a computer engineer.

So with his knowledge, he ends up using such difficult technical words and I really can't understand them.

So he just totally blinds me with science.

So someone who confuses you with their knowledge, okay?

Moving on to the next one is: not just a pretty face.

Well, it's a great expression that can be used for women.

Yes, we consider women really pretty, but then people think or—usually it's the men—

Men think that, okay, if the lady is pretty, she's definitely not smart.

Well, there are women who have a very pretty face.

So someone, like, beauty with brains, okay?

So someone who is very attractive and intelligent, well, you can use this expression, not just a pretty face.

Well, the new CEO she is a woman, but she's not just a pretty face.

She's extremely talented and intelligent.

So, not just attractive, but also intelligent.

Well, nobody's fool is an expression that is used for a person who cannot be easily cheated.

Well, that person is considered to be really smart enough and cannot be deceived.

Subtitles ListPlay Video

10 Ways To Describe Intelligent People | Improve Your English Speaking | Vocabulary & Phrases

essential

extremely

engage

appreciate