intellect

Từ điển WordNet v3.1 - WordNet Dictionary

noun

1. knowledge and intellectual ability (Freq. 5)
- he reads to improve his mind
- he has a keen intellect
• Syn:
mind
• Derivationally related forms:
intellectual
• Hypernyms:
intelligence
• Attrubites:
intellectual, nonintellectual
2. the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination (Freq. 1)
- we are told that man is endowed with reason and capable of distinguishing good from evil
• Syn:
reason, understanding
• Derivationally related forms:
reason (for: reason)
• Hypernyms:
faculty, mental faculty, module
3. a person who uses the mind creatively
• Syn:
intellectual
• 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

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  intellectual, reason, understanding, mind