intellectual
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French intellectuel, from Latin intellectualis.
Inflected forms:
form: more intellectual
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most intellectual
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: intellectuall
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: intellectuals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: intellectuall
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to, or performed by, the intellect; mental or cognitive.
pos: adj
examples: intellectual powers, activities, etc.
1920, Harold Monro, Preface to The year's at the spring; an anthology of recent poetry
Pleasure is various, but it cannot exist where the emotions or the imagination have not been powerfully stirred. Whether it be called sensual or intellectual, pleasure cannot be willed
Indeed, this discovery of meaning in symbols may be the most astounding intellectual feat that any human being ever performs—and most humans perform it before they are seven years old!
gloss: Endowed with intellect; having a keen sense of understanding; having the capacity for higher forms of knowledge or thought; characterized by intelligence or cleverness
pos: adj
examples: an intellectual person
The Fenimore Cooper Indian is no doubt a brave and highly intellectual person, educated abroad, refined and cultivated by foreign travel, graceful in the grub dance or scalp walk-around, yet tender-hearted as a girl, walking by night fifty-seven miles in a single evening to warn his white friends of danger.
gloss: Suitable for exercising one's intellect; perceived by the intellect
pos: adj
examples: intellectual employments
A good deal of nonsense is written about sport and entertainment. Many of us can, with pleasant ease, suspend a severely intellectual task for a few hours to witness a first-class football match.
gloss: Relating to the understanding; treating of the mind.
pos: adj
examples: intellectual philosophy, sometimes called "mental" philosophy
gloss: Spiritual.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
poetic
examples: I deem not profitless those fleeting moods / Of shadowy exultation; not for this, / That they are kindred to our purer mind / And intellectual life […]
gloss: An intelligent, learned person, especially one who discourses about learned matters.
pos: noun
examples: It should be noted that there is now no intelligentsia that is not in some sense "Left". Perhaps the last right-wing intellectual was T. E. Lawrence. Since about 1930 everyone describable as an “intellectual” has lived in a state of chronic discontent with the existing order.
‘You know I hate intellectuals.’
‘You mean you hate people who are cleverer than you are.’
‘Yes. I suppose that’s why I like you so much, Tom.’
gloss: The intellect or understanding; mental powers or faculties.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: […] although their intellectuals had not failed in the theory of truth, yet did the inservient and brutall faculties control the suggestion of reason […]
Synonyms: cerebral
intellectual
logical
mental
rational
Antonyms: nonintellectual
visceral
Related words: intellect
intellectualize
intelligence
intelligent
overintellectualize
bodily
brain
faculty
learned
clerisy
intelligentsia
Derived words: alpha-thalassemia-intellectual disability syndrome
antiintellectual
anti-intellectual
blepharophimosis-ptosis-intellectual disability syndrome
hyperintellectual
intellectual capital
intellectual dark web
intellectual developmental disorder
intellectual disability
intellectual freedom
intellectual honesty
intellectualisation
intellectualish
intellectualism
intellectualist
intellectualistic
intellectuality
intellectualization
intellectual journey
intellectually
intellectual masturbation
intellectualness
intellectualoid
intellectual property
intellectual prostitute
intellectual rights
neurointellectual
organic intellectual
overintellectual
preintellectual
pseudo-intellectual
pseudointellectual
subintellectual
superintellectual
ultraintellectual
unintellectual
public intellectual
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