- a person who uses the mind creatively
- of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind; "intellectual problems"; "the triumph of the rational over the animal side of man"
- 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"
- cerebral: involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct; "a cerebral approach to the problem"; "cerebral drama"
- An intellectual is a person who uses intelligence (thought and reason) and critical or analytical reasoning in either a professional or a personal capacity.
- (Intellectually) Intelligence is an umbrella term describing a property of the mind including related abilities, such as the capacities for abstract thought, understanding, communication, reasoning, learning, learning from past experiences, planning, and problem solving.
- (Intellectually) Transcendentalism is a form of mystic thought rooted in Western traditions like Neo-Platonism or Swedenborgianism. Its elevated, all-embracing perspective resolves the conflicting phenomena of the material world to a spiritual direction or meaning.
- (Intellectuals) Differentia: Involved in complex, abstract reasoning
- n (cultured and educated person) klerulo, (intellectual person) intelektulo
- Pertaining to thought, or an intelligent thinking person. The intellectual often likes ideas and debate, and although may be a trained expert in a particular field, can spiral off into varied broad subjects. ...
- (person with strong academics, logical thinking, complex reasoning, good at cognitive games);
- (1) one who stands firmly on both feet in mid-air on both sides of an issue. (2) one who produces endless quandaries for himself and others by sleight of brain.
- Every left-winger. No right-winger can be a true intellectual because of their ill motives, defects in character, disturbed psychology, and/or abject stupidity (see Ad Hominem).
- uses shots which, combined, elicit an intellectual meaning.
- [in-tl-ek-choo-uhl] adj.
- logical, intellectual, rational, objective, practical,