Intellectual
[,ɪntə'lektʃʊəl;-tjʊəl] or [,ɪntə'lɛktʃuəl]
Definition
(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' .
Checked by Genevieve--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Mental, of the intellect, of the understanding.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Mental, metaphysical, psychological, inventive, learned, cultured
ANT:Unintellectual, unmetaphysical, unlearned
Editor: Lorna
Examples
- And the rigid examination system that killed all intellectual initiatives has been destroyed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The times were full of stir and intellectual intereSt. The distant murmur of the Reformation was beginning to be heard. Plato. The Republic.
- Intellectual responsibility means severe standards in this regard. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Apprehension means dread of undesirable consequences, as well as intellectual grasp. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- We have almost no spiritual weapons against classicalism: universities, churches, newspapers are by-products of a commercial success; we have no tradition of intellectual revolt. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Otherwise, his seeming attention, his docility, his memorizings and reproductions, will partake of intellectual servility. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Intelligence and spirit are not often combined with steadiness; the stolid, fearless, nature is averse to intellectual toil. Plato. The Republic.
- All authorities agree that that discernment of relationships is the genuinely intellectual matter; hence, the educative matter. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- You have to imagine, then, that there are two ruling powers, and that one of them is set over the intellectual world, the other over the visible. Plato. The Republic.
- I mean as regarding Caliphronas; he is physically perfect, thoroughly healthful, and yet you can hardly call him intellectual. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- This change of the general intellectual mood harmonized with Aristotle's natural respect for existing fact. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He had a head of abnormal size, with highly intellectual features and a very small and emaciated body. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- At present, intellectual and emotional limitation characterizes both the employing and the employed class. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Of the intellectual world? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Mr Dolls, collapsing in the drowsiest manner after his late intellectual triumph, replied: 'Threepenn'orth Rum. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- It was encouraging a nasty class of intellectuals to interfere in the affairs of sound business men. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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