of or pertaining to the mind or intellect, mental, rational; highly intelligent, brilliant; devoted to mental or intellectual pursuits, academic
highly intelligent person; person engaged in intellectual pursuits, academic
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Intellectual Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(n.)
The intellect or understanding; mental powers or faculties.
The intellect or understanding; mental powers or faculties.
(a.)
Suitable for exercising the intellect; formed by, and existing for, the intellect alone; perceived by the intellect; as, intellectual employments.
Suitable for exercising the intellect; formed by, and existing for, the intellect alone; perceived by the intellect; as, intellectual employments.
(a.)
Relating to the understanding; treating of the mind; as, intellectual philosophy, sometimes called "mental" philosophy.
Relating to the understanding; treating of the mind; as, intellectual philosophy, sometimes called "mental" philosophy.
(a.)
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.
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.
(a.)
Belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental; as, intellectual powers, activities, etc.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutBelonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental; as, intellectual powers, activities, etc.
intellectual
\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. 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?
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.
intellectual
\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. i kept her intellectuals in a state of exercise.
intellectual
adj
1. of or relating to the intellect; "his intellectual career"
2. of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind; "intellectual problems"; "the triumph of the rational over the animal side of man" [syn: rational, noetic]
3. 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" [ant: nonintellectual]
4. involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct; "a cerebral approach to the problem"; "cerebral drama" [syn: cerebral]
[ant: emotional] n : a person who uses the mind creatively [syn: intellect]
similar words(3)
anti-intellectual
intellectual property
intellectual nourishment
Characterized by intelligence.
Elfod = n. intellectual existence
Ellyd = intellectual world
Llafanawl = a. intellectual
Menwedig = a. intellectual; blessed
Menwi = v. to make intellectual
Noun
1. a person who uses the mind creatively
(synonym) intellect
(hypernym) person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, human, soul
(hyponym) anomalist
Adjective
1. of or relating to the intellect; "his intellectual career"
(pertainym) mind, intellect
2. of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind; "intellectual problems"; "the triumph of the rational over the animal side of man"
(synonym) rational, noetic
(similar) mental
3. 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"
(antonym) nonintellectual
(similar) highbrow, highbrowed
(see-also) educated
(attribute) mind, intellect
4. involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct; "a cerebral approach to the problem"; "cerebral drama"
(synonym) cerebral
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Intellectual Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
An intellectual is a person who primarily uses intelligence in either a professional or an individual capacity. As a substantive or adjective, it refers to the work product of such persons, to the so-called "life of the mind" generally, or to an aspect of something where learning, erudition, and informed and critical thinking are the focus, as in "the intellectual level of the discourse on the matter was not high".
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