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Intellectual - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Intellectual : adj
1: of or relating to the intellect; "his intellectual career"
2: of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind;
"intellectual problems"; "the triumph of the rational over
the animal side of man" [syn: rational, noetic]
3: appealing to or using the intellect; "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]
4: involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct; "a
cerebral approach to the problem"; "cerebral drama" [syn:
cerebral] [ant: emotional]
(noun)
1: a person who uses the mind creatively [syn: intellect]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Intellectual : \In`tel*lec"tu*al\, n.
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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Intellectual : \In`tel*lec"tu*al\ (?; 135), a. [L. intellectualis:
cf. F. intellectuel.]
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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Example Usage of Intellectual |
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moggitgirls: RT @BravoAndy I'm on Joy Behar show 2nite. It's me at my least Intellectual. I'm in full debbie downer mode, actually (Way to promo it lol!) |
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1anobody: @TBlair417 Per your bio, "unwilling to go down without a fight." It's time to fight an Intellectual revolution. |
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automne_torte: @oscar519 http://Intellectual-debris.blogspot.com/2009/12/twilight-rant.html |
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