intellectual

1. a. Belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental; as, intellectual powers, activities, etc. Source: opted

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. Source: opted

3. a. Suitable for exercising the intellect; formed by, and existing for, the intellect alone; perceived by the intellect; as, intellectual employments. Source: opted

4. a. Relating to the understanding; treating of the mind; as, intellectual philosophy, sometimes called "mental" philosophy. Source: opted

5. n. The intellect or understanding; mental powers or faculties. Source: opted

6. adj. of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind Source: wordnet

7. adj. appealing to or using the intellect Source: wordnet

8. adj. involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct Source: wordnet

9. n. a person who uses the mind creatively Source: wordnet

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. Source: webster

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. Source: adambom

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 Source: ecdict

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