intellectual

Plural: intellectuals

Noun

• a person who uses the mind creatively
• An intelligent, learned person, especially one who discourses about learned matters.
• The intellect or understanding; mental powers or faculties.

Adjective Satellite

• of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind
  • "intellectual problems"

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"
• involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct

Adj

• Pertaining to, or performed by, the intellect; mental or cognitive.
• Endowed with intellect; having a keen sense of understanding; having the capacity for higher forms of knowledge or thought; characterized by intelligence or cleverness
• Suitable for exercising one's intellect; perceived by the intellect
• Relating to the understanding; treating of the mind.
• Spiritual.

Examples

• an intellectual person
• intellectual employments
• intellectual philosophy, sometimes called "mental" philosophy
• intellectual powers, activities, etc.

Synonyms

cerebral, intellect, noetic, rational, academic, highbrow, intellectual, logical, mental, scholar

Antonyms

emotional, nonintellectual, visceral

Related Words

bodily, brain, clerisy, faculty, intellect, intellectualize, intelligence, intelligent, intelligentsia, learned, overintellectualize

Anagrams of intellectual