in·tel·lec·tu·al  /ˌɪntəlˈɛktʃuəl/

noun

1. a person who uses the mind creatively

synset: intellectual, intellect

adj

1. of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind; "intellectual problems"; "the triumph of the rational over the animal side of man"

synset: intellectual, rational, noetic

2. 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"

synset: intellectual

antonym: nonintellectual

3. involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct; "a cerebral approach to the problem"; "cerebral drama"

synset: cerebral, intellectual

antonym: emotional

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