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intellectual definition
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Grep of noun intellectual intellectual intellectual nourishment intellectualisation intellectualization Overview of noun intellectual The noun intellectual has 1 sense (first 1 from tagged texts) 1. (3) intellectual, intellect -- (a person who uses the mind creatively) Overview of adj intellectual The adj intellectual has 4 senses (first 3 from tagged texts) 1. (10) intellectual -- (of or relating to the intellect; "his intellectual career") 2. (3) 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") 3. (1) 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") 4. cerebral, intellectual -- (involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct; "a cerebral approach to the problem"; "cerebral drama") Antonyms of adj intellectual 3 of 4 senses of intellectual Sense 2 intellectual, rational, noetic INDIRECT (VIA mental) -> physical Sense 3 intellectual (vs. nonintellectual) nonintellectual (vs. intellectual) => anti-intellectual, philistine => lowbrow, lowbrowed, uncultivated => mindless Sense 4 cerebral (vs. emotional), intellectual Similarity of adj intellectual 4 senses of intellectual Sense 1 intellectual Pertains to noun intellect (Sense 1) =>mind, intellect => intelligence Sense 2 intellectual, rational, noetic => mental (vs. physical) Sense 3 intellectual (vs. nonintellectual) => highbrow, highbrowed => rational => reflective => good, serious => sophisticated Also See-> educated#1; mental#1; scholarly#1 Sense 4 cerebral (vs. emotional), intellectual Attributes of adj intellectual 1 of 4 senses of intellectual Sense 3 intellectual (vs. nonintellectual) => mind, intellect Familiarity of adj intellectual intellectual used as an adjective is uncommon (polysemy count = 4) Grep of adj intellectual anti-intellectual intellectual nonintellectual Overview of noun intellectual The noun intellectual has 1 sense (first 1 from tagged texts) 1. (3) intellectual, intellect -- (a person who uses the mind creatively) Overview of adj intellectual The adj intellectual has 4 senses (first 3 from tagged texts) 1. (10) intellectual -- (of or relating to the intellect; "his intellectual career") 2. (3) 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") 3. (1) 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") 4. cerebral, intellectual -- (involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct; "a cerebral approach to the problem"; "cerebral drama")
intellectual definition
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