intellectual synonyms

intellectual

modif.

mental, cerebral, intelligent, bookish; see intelligent 1, learned 1, rational 1, studious. See syn. study at intelligent.

intellectual

n.

scholar, pundit, genius, philosopher, thinker, academic, academician, bookworm, highbrow, member of the intelligentsia, egghead*, brain*, Einstein*, longhair*, bluestocking*, braintruster*; see also genius 2, scholar 2.

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