Intellectual Definition

ĭntl-ĕkcho͝o-əl
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adjective
Of or pertaining to the intellect.
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Appealing to the intellect.
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Requiring or involving the intellect.
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Guided by the intellect rather than by feelings.
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Inclined toward activities that involve the intellect.
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noun
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A person with intellectual interests or tastes.
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A person engaged in intellectual work.
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A member of the intelligentsia.
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An intelligent, learned person, especially one who discourses about learned matters.

Wiktionary

(archaic) The intellect or understanding; mental powers or faculties.

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Other Word Forms of Intellectual

Noun

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intellectual
Plural:
intellectuals

Origin of Intellectual

  • Middle English from Old French intellectuel from Late Latin intellēctuālis from Latin intellēctus intellect intellect

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Old French intellectuel, from Latin intellectualis

    From Wiktionary

Intellectual Sentence Examples

  • No community living in full accordance with that code could fail to reach a high moral and intellectual level.

  • During the first two years of her intellectual life, I required Helen to write very little.

  • The God of Descartes is not merely the creator of the material universe; he is also the father of all truth in the intellectual world.

  • His interest in art was evidently intellectual.

  • But the intellectual and what is called spiritual man in him were slumbering as in an infant.

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