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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`tellec"tual\ (?; 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`tellec"tual\, 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.

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"

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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