Thesaurus: intellectual

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1. a. Belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental; as, intellectual powers, activities, etc.
2. 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.
3. a. Suitable for exercising the intellect; formed by, and existing for, the intellect alone; perceived by the intellect; as, intellectual employments.
4. a. Relating to the understanding; treating of the mind; as, intellectual philosophy, sometimes called "mental" philosophy.
5. n. The intellect or understanding; mental powers or faculties.
6. adj. of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind
7. adj. appealing to or using the intellect
8. adj. involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct
9. n. a person who uses the mind creatively
10. 1. Belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental; as, intellectual powers, activities, etc. Logic is to teach us the right use of our reason or intellectual powers. I. Watts. 2. 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. Who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity Milton. 3. Suitable for exercising the intellect; formed by, and existing for, the intellect alone; perceived by the intellect; as, intellectual employments. 4. Relating to the understanding; treating of the mind; as, intellectual philosophy, sometimes called "mental" philosophy. The intellect or understanding; mental powers or faculties. Her husband, for I view far round, not nigh, Whose higher intellectual more I shun. Milton. I kept her intellectuals in a state of exercise. De Quincey.
11. The intellect or understanding; mental powers or faculties.Her husband, for I view far round, not nigh, Whose higherintellectual more I shun. Milton.I kept her intellectuals in a state of exercise. De Quincey.
12. j:67/n:33 n. a person who uses the mind creatively s. of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind a. appealing to or using the intellect