English dictionary

intellectual

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Definitions, examples, synonyms and antonyms from WordNet 3.0.

adjective

appealing to or using the intellect

adj.all

Examples
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.

Antonyms nonintellectual

Source: WordNet 3.0
involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct

adj.all

Synonyms cerebral

Antonyms emotional

Source: WordNet 3.0
Belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental; as, <i>intellectual</i> powers, activities, etc.

adjective

Source: webster1913

a person who uses the mind creatively

noun.person

Synonyms intellect

Source: WordNet 3.0
The intellect or understanding; mental powers or faculties.

noun

Source: webster1913