INTELLECTUAL

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

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Etymology

Adjective

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.

Antonyms

• nonintellectual

Noun

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

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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

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