'Intellectual' definitions:

Definition of 'intellectual'

From: WordNet
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" [syn: intellectual, rational, noetic]
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" [ant: nonintellectual]
adjective
Involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct; "a cerebral approach to the problem"; "cerebral drama" [syn: cerebral, intellectual] [ant: emotional]
noun
A person who uses the mind creatively [syn: intellectual, intellect]

Definition of 'Intellectual'

From: GCIDE
  • Intellectual \In`tel*lec"tu*al\, n.
  • 1. The intellect or understanding; mental powers or faculties. [1913 Webster]
  • Her husband, for I view far round, not nigh, Whose higher intellectual more I shun. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • I kept her intellectuals in a state of exercise. --De Quincey. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. A learned person or one of high intelligence; especially, one who places greatest value on activities requiring exercise of the intelligence, such as study, complex forms of knowledge, literature and aesthetic matters, reflection and philosophical speculation; a member of the intelligentsia; as, intellectuals are often apalled at the inanities that pass for entertainment on television. [PJC]

Definition of 'Intellectual'

From: GCIDE
  • Intellectual \In`tel*lec"tu*al\ (?; 135), a. [L. intellectualis: cf. F. intellectuel.] [1913 Webster]
  • 1. Belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental; as, intellectual powers, activities, etc. [1913 Webster]
  • Logic is to teach us the right use of our reason or intellectual powers. --I. Watts. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • Who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity? --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. Suitable for exercising the intellect; formed by, and existing for, the intellect alone; perceived by the intellect; as, intellectual employments. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. Relating to the understanding; treating of the mind; as, intellectual philosophy, sometimes called "mental" philosophy. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'intellectual'

From: Moby Thesaurus

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