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1. | Belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental; | |
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; | |
3. | Suitable for exercising the intellect; formed by, and existing for, the intellect alone; perceived by the intellect; | |
4. | Relating to the understanding; treating of the mind; | |
n. | 1. | The intellect or understanding; mental powers or faculties. |
2. | A learned person or one of high intelligence; |
Noun | 1. | intellectual - a person who uses the mind creatively Synonyms: intellect |
Adj. | 1. | intellectual - of or relating to the intellect; "his intellectual career" |
2. | intellectual - of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind; "intellectual problems"; "the triumph of the rational over the animal side of man" | |
3. | intellectual - 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" Antonyms: nonintellectual - not intellectual | |
4. | intellectual - involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct; "a cerebral approach to the problem"; "cerebral drama" Synonyms: cerebral |