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English Dictionary: intellectual	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for intellectual
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
intellectual adj of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind; "intellectual problems"; "the triumph of the rational over the animal side of man" Synonym(s): intellectual, rational, noetic 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" Antonym(s): nonintellectual involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct; "a cerebral approach to the problem"; "cerebral drama" Synonym(s): cerebral, intellectual Antonym(s): emotional n a person who uses the mind creatively [syn: intellectual, intellect]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Intellectual \In`tellec"tual\ (?; 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 [bd]mental[b8] philosophy.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Intellectual \In`tellec"tual\, 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.