intellectual
(adjective) 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”
intellectual, rational, noetic
(adjective) of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind; “intellectual problems”; “the triumph of the rational over the animal side of man”
cerebral, intellectual
(adjective) involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct; “a cerebral approach to the problem”; “cerebral drama”
intellectual, intellect
(noun) a person who uses the mind creatively
Source: WordNet® 3.1
intellectual (comparative more intellectual, superlative most intellectual)
Belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental or cognitive.
Endowed with intellect; having the power of understanding; having capacity for the higher forms of knowledge or thought; characterized by intelligence or mental capacity
Suitable for exercising the intellect; formed by, and existing for, the intellect alone; perceived by the intellect
Relating to the understanding; treating of the mind.
(archaic, poetic) Spiritual.
• nonintellectual
intellectual (plural intellectuals)
An intelligent, learned person, especially one who discourses about learned matters.
Synonym: highbrow
Coordinate terms: egghead, nerd, geek
(archaic) The intellect or understanding; mental powers or faculties.
Source: Wiktionary
In`tel*lec"tu*al, a. Etym: [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.
Definition: 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
13 March 2025
(adjective) conforming exactly or almost exactly to fact or to a standard or performing with total accuracy; “an accurate reproduction”; “the accounting was accurate”; “accurate measurements”; “an accurate scale”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
