English dictionary

intellect

/'/I/n,t/-/l/E/kt/

Definitions, examples, synonyms and antonyms from WordNet 3.0.

noun

knowledge and intellectual ability

noun.cognition

Examples
He has a keen intellect.

Synonyms mind

Source: WordNet 3.0
the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination

noun.cognition

Synonyms reason understanding

Source: WordNet 3.0
a person who uses the mind creatively

noun.person

Synonyms intellectual

Source: WordNet 3.0
The part or faculty of the human soul by which it knows, as distinguished from the power to feel and to will; sometimes, the capacity for higher forms of knowledge, as distinguished from the power to perceive objects in their relations; the power to judge and comprehend; the thinking faculty; the understanding.

noun

Source: webster1913