intellectual
in·tel·lec·tual
adjective
1.
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”
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”
4.
involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct
- “a cerebral approach to the problem”
- “cerebral drama”
noun
1.
a person who uses the mind creatively
Origin
From Old French intellectuel, from Latin intellectualis.
Phrases
- alpha-thalassemia-intellectual disability syndrome
- blepharophimosis-ptosis-intellectual disability syndrome
- intellectual capital
- intellectual dark web
- intellectual developmental disorder
- intellectual disability
- intellectual freedom
- intellectual honesty
- public intellectual
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