Intellectual

//ˌɪntəˈlɛkt͡ʃʊəl// adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Pertaining to, or performed by, the intellect; mental or cognitive.

    "intellectual powers, activities, etc."

  2. 2
    Endowed with intellect; having a keen sense of understanding; having the capacity for higher forms of knowledge or thought; characterized by intelligence or cleverness

    "an intellectual person"

  3. 3
    Suitable for exercising one's intellect; perceived by the intellect

    "intellectual employments"

  4. 4
    Relating to the understanding; treating of the mind.

    "intellectual philosophy, sometimes called "mental" philosophy"

  5. 5
    Spiritual. archaic, poetic

    "I deem not profitless those fleeting moods / Of shadowy exultation; not for this, / That they are kindred to our purer mind / And intellectual life […]"

Adjective
  1. 1
    appealing to or using the intellect wordnet
  2. 2
    of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind wordnet
  3. 3
    involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    An intelligent, learned person, especially one who discourses about learned matters.

    "It should be noted that there is now no intelligentsia that is not in some sense "Left". Perhaps the last right-wing intellectual was T. E. Lawrence. Since about 1930 everyone describable as an “intellectual” has lived in a state of chronic discontent with the existing order."

  2. 2
    a person who uses the mind creatively wordnet
  3. 3
    The intellect or understanding; mental powers or faculties. archaic

    "[…] although their intellectuals had not failed in the theory of truth, yet did the inservient and brutall faculties control the suggestion of reason […]"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Old French intellectuel, from Latin intellectualis.

Etymology 2

From Old French intellectuel, from Latin intellectualis.

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