intellectual

Definitions

1. An intelligent, learned person, especially one who discourses about learned matters.
2. Pertaining to, or performed by, the intellect; mental or cognitive
3. The intellect or understanding; mental powers or faculties.
   archaic
4. An intellectual person.
5. Endowed with intellect; having a keen sense of understanding; having the capacity for higher forms of knowledge or thought; characterized by intelligence or cleverness
6. A person of great mental ability:brain, intellect, mind, thinker.
7. Suitable for exercising one's intellect; perceived by the intellect
8. the thinking power of the mind. He was a person of great intellect. intellek عَقْل، فِكْر، القُوَّه العَقْلِيَّه интелект intelecto intelekt der Verstand intellekt διάνοιαintelecto aru قدرت تفکر äly intelligenceשכל प्रज्ञा razum értelem kecerdasan vitsmunir; gáfur intelletto 知性 지성 intelektas intelekts; prāts intelek intellectforstand, intellektintelekt پوهه، هوښيار توب، عقل، ددرك , قوه intelecto intelect, inteligenţă интеллект intelekt razum intelekt intellekt ปัญญา akıl, zihin 智力 інтелект, р...
9. Relating to the understanding; treating of the mind
10. of, or appealing to, the intellect. He does not play football – his interests are mainly intellectual. intellektueel عَقْلي، ذِهْني интелектуален intelectual intelektuální geistig intellektuel πνευματικός, διανοητικόςintelectual intellektuaalne فکری älyllinen intellectuelשכלי बुद्धिगत, प्रज्ञावान intelektualni intellektuális intelektual vitsmunalegur, andlegur intellettuale 知的な 지적인 intelektualinis, protinis intelektuāls; prāta- intelektual intellectueelåndelig, intellektuellintelektualny پوه،...
11. Spiritual
12. Of or relating to the intellect.
13. Appealing to or engaging the intellect: an intellectual book; an intellectual problem.
14. Having or showing intellect, especially to a high degree. See Synonyms at intelligent.
15. of or relating to the intellect, as opposed to the emotions
16. appealing to or characteristic of people with a developed intellect: intellectual literature.
17. expressing or enjoying mental activity

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Examples

“It should be noted that there is now no intelligentsia that is not in some sense⟳ "Left". Perhaps the last⟳ right-wing intellectual was T. E. Lawrence. Since about 1930 everyone describable as an “intellectual” has lived in a state of chronic discontent with the existing order⟳.”

“‘You know⟳ I hate⟳ intellectuals.’ ‘You mean⟳ you hate⟳ people who are cleverer than you are.’ ‘Yes. I suppose⟳ that’s why I like⟳ you so much, Tom.’”

“[…] although their intellectuals had not failed in the theory of truth, yet did the inservient and brutall faculties control⟳ the suggestion of reason⟳ […]”

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