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Adjective intellectual has 4 senses
- intellectual - of or relating to the intellect; "his intellectual career"
- intellectual, rational, noetic - of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind; "intellectual problems"; "the triumph of the rational over the animal side of man"
Antonym: physical (indirect, via mental)
- intellectual - 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"
Antonyms: nonintellectual, anti-intellectual, philistine, lowbrow, lowbrowed, uncultivated, mindless
- cerebral, intellectual - involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct; "a cerebral approach to the problem"; "cerebral drama"
Noun intellectual has 1 sense
- intellectual, intellect - a person who uses the mind creatively
--1 is a kind of person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, human, soul
--1 has particulars: | | anomalist; exponent; alchemist; aphorist; bel esprit; clever Dick, clever clogs; decoder, decipherer; egghead; genius, mastermind, brain, Einstein; highbrow; mentor, wise man; scholar, scholarly person, student; skeptic, sceptic, doubter; specifier; subjectivist; synthesist, synthesizer, synthesiser; theorist, theoretician, theorizer, theoriser; thinker, creative thinker, mind; thinker; visionary, illusionist, seer; wonderer |
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