Definitions for: 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"



Webster (1913) Definition: 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.

Synonyms: cerebral, good, highbrow, highbrowed, intellect, noetic, rational, reflective, serious, sophisticated

Antonyms: emotional, nonintellectual

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

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