Intellectual

[,ɪntə'lektʃʊəl;-tjʊəl] or [,ɪntə'lɛktʃuəl]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a person who uses the mind creatively.

(adj.) 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 intellectual type'; 'intellectual literature' .

(adj.) of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind; 'intellectual problems'; 'the triumph of the rational over the animal side of man' .

吉纳维芙校對--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(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.

整理:凯蒂

同義詞及近義詞：

a. Mental, of the intellect, of the understanding.

校對:贾斯廷

同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Mental, metaphysical, psychological, inventive, learned, cultured

ANT:Unintellectual, unmetaphysical, unlearned

編輯:洛娜