intellectual (adj.)

  1. 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'

  2. involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct; a cerebral approach to the problem; cerebral drama

    [ Syn: cerebral ]

    intellectual (n.)

  1. a person who uses the mind creatively

    [ Syn: intellect ]

    intellectual (adj.)

  1. of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind; intellectual problems; the triumph of the rational over the animal side of man

    [ Syn: rational , noetic ]

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