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Intellectual

Intellectual Meaning & Definition
Intellectual Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Intellectual?

[n] a person who uses the mind creatively
[adj] appealing to or using the intellect; "satire is an intellectual weapon"; "intellectual workers engaged in creative literary or artistic or scientific labor"; "has tremendous intellectual sympathy for oppressed people"; "coldly intellectual"; "sort of the intellectual type"; "intellectual literature"
[adj] of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind; "intellectual problems"; "the triumph of the rational over the animal side of man"
[adj] involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct; "a cerebral approach to the problem"; "cerebral drama"
[adj] of or relating to the intellect; "his intellectual career"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Intellectual: cerebral | good | highbrow | highbrowed | intellect | noetic | rational | reflective | serious | sophisticated

Related Terms | Find terms related to Intellectual: academic | academician | affective | authority | bookish | Brahmin | brain | brainy | bright | cerebral | characteristic | conceptive | conceptual | constitutional | discursive | dispositional | doctor | egghead | elder | elder statesman | elitist | emotional | endopsychic | experimental scientist | expert | genius | great soul | guru | highbrow | highbrowed | ideational | illuminate | illuminati | innate | intellect | intellectualistic | intelligence | intelligent | internal | knowing | literati | lover of wisdom | mahatma | man of intellect | man of science | man of wisdom | mandarin | master | mastermind | mental | mentor | noetic | noological | not so dumb | oracle | philosopher | phrenic | polymath | practical scientist | professor | psychic | psychical | psychologic | psychological | pundit | rabbi | rational | reasonable | reasoning | rishi | sage | sane | sapient | savant | scholar | scholarly | scientist | seer | sensible | sophic | spiritual | starets | strong-minded | subjective | technologist | temperamental | thinker | thinking | thoughtful | thought-provoking | understanding | wise man | wise old man

See Also | alchemist | anomalist | aphorist | arranger | bel esprit | bibliophile | book lover | booklover | bookworm | brain | brainworker | classifier | clever clogs | clever Dick | creative thinker | decipherer | decoder | doubter | educated | egghead | exponent | genius | highbrow | human | illusionist | individual | introvert | man of science | mastermind | mental | mentor | mind | mortal | optimist | organiser | organizer | pedant | person | philosopher | philosophiser | philosophizer | ratiocinator | reasoner | sceptic | scholar | scholarly | scholarly person | scholastic | scientist | seer | skeptic | somebody | someone | soul | specifier | speculator | student | subjectivist | synthesiser | synthesist | synthesizer | theologian | theologiser | theologist | theologizer | theoretician | theoriser | theorist | theorizer | thinker | visionary | wise man | wonderer

Intellectual In Webster's Dictionary

\In`tel*lec"tu*al\ (?; 135), a. [L. intellectualis: cf. F. intellectuel.] 1. Belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental; as, intellectual powers, activities, etc. Logic is to teach us the right use of our reason or intellectual powers. --I. Watts. 2. Endowed with intellect; having the power of understanding; having capacity for the higher forms of knowledge or thought; characterized by intelligence or mental capacity; as, an intellectual person. Who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity? --Milton. 3. Suitable for exercising the intellect; formed by, and existing for, the intellect alone; perceived by the intellect; as, intellectual employments. 4. Relating to the understanding; treating of the mind; as, intellectual philosophy, sometimes called ``mental'' philosophy.
\In`tel*lec"tu*al\, n. The intellect or understanding; mental powers or faculties. Her husband, for I view far round, not nigh, Whose higher intellectual more I shun. --Milton. I kept her intellectuals in a state of exercise. --De Quincey.

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