The adjective intellectual describes something related to or using the mind or intellect. Your creative pursuit of singing in a rock band is different from your intellectual interest in 16th century drama.
Belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental;
Noun
a person who uses the mind creatively
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
Adjective S.
of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind; "intellectual problems"; "the triumph of the rational over the animal side of man"
Adjective
involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct; "a cerebral approach to the problem"; "cerebral drama"
Adjective
of or relating to the intellect; "his intellectual career"
a.
Belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental;
as, intellectual powers, activities, etc.
a.
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.
a.
Suitable for exercising the intellect; formed by, and
existing for, the intellect alone; perceived by the intellect; as,
intellectual employments.
a.
Relating to the understanding; treating of the mind;
as, intellectual philosophy, sometimes called "mental" philosophy.
n.
The intellect or understanding; mental powers or
faculties.
Intellectual
Logic is to teach us the right use of our reason or intellectual powers.2.
Who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity?3.
Intellectual
Her husband, for I view far round, not nigh, Whose higher intellectual more I shun.
I kept her intellectuals in a state of exercise.
Belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental;
The intellect or understanding; mental powers or faculties.
Usage Examples
All in the Family was intellectual it was art.
Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure.
Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship.
Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up. People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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Other Usage ExamplesAn intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.
Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.
English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century.
After my mom died, there was so much written about her fashion and her style and all that, and I felt that one of the most important parts of her was missing, her real intellectual curiosity.
Among those who are satisfactory in this respect it is desirable to have represented as great a diversity of intellectual tradition, social milieu and personal character as possible.
Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance.
By exploring the political and moral colorings of discoveries about what makes us tick, we can have a more honest science and a less fearful intellectual milieu.
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