Graded and ungraded adjectives
The 'intelligent' group
These adjectives indicate a quality that a person has, such as beauty, intelligence, courage, or generosity.able active aggressive attractive beautiful brave bright brilliant capable careful clever competitive confident conservative conventional cool crazy creative curious decent direct efficient emotional fair fierce friendly generous gentle genuine helpful honest hostile independent intelligent liberal mad modest moral musical pretty professional reasonable responsible romantic sensible sensitive serious silly smart sophisticated strict strong stupid sweet tough violent warm weak wild wise
She has the most beautiful green eyes.
I was very confident, but very calm.
He was incredibly generous with his money.
I find these dogs are extremely intelligent, but you do have to stay one step ahead of them.
She has two small boys who are as mad as monkeys.
It's taken me 42 years to be able to admit that I'm a deeply sensitive person.
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