intellectual
a person who uses the mind creatively (Freq. 3)
• Syn:
intellect
• Hypernyms:
person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
• Hyponyms:
anomalist, exponent, alchemist, aphorist, bel esprit,
clever Dick, clever clogs, decoder, decipherer, egghead, expositor,
expounder, genius, mastermind, brain, brainiac, Einstein,
highbrow, mentor, wise man, scholar, scholarly person, bookman,
student, skeptic, sceptic, doubter, specifier, subjectivist,
synthesist, synthesizer, synthesiser, theorist, theoretician, theorizer,
theoriser, idealogue, thinker, creative thinker, mind, visionary,
illusionist, seer, wonderer
1. of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind (Freq. 3)
- intellectual problems
- the triumph of the rational over the animal side of man
• Syn:
rational, noetic
• Similar to:
mental
• Derivationally related forms:
noesis (for: noetic), rationality (for: rational)
2. appealing to or using the intellect (Freq. 1)
- 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
• Ant:
nonintellectual
• Similar to:
highbrow, highbrowed, rational, reflective, good,
serious, sophisticated
• See Also:
educated, mental, scholarly
• Attrubites:
mind, intellect
3. involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct
- a cerebral approach to the problem
- cerebral drama
• Syn:
cerebral
• Ant:
emotional (for: cerebral)
• Derivationally related forms:
intellect
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