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Intellectual
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- 1 Pertaining to, or performed by, the intellect; mental or cognitive.
"intellectual powers, activities, etc."
- 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 Suitable for exercising one's intellect; perceived by the intellect
"intellectual employments"
- 4 Relating to the understanding; treating of the mind.
"intellectual philosophy, sometimes called "mental" philosophy"
- 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 […]"
- 1 appealing to or using the intellect wordnet
- 2 of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind wordnet
- 3 involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct wordnet
- 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 a person who uses the mind creatively wordnet
- 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
From Old French intellectuel, from Latin intellectualis.
From Old French intellectuel, from Latin intellectualis.
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