INTELLECTUAL as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • a person who uses the mind creatively
   Synonym(s)
   • intellect (what does intellect mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) intellectual is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • person (what does person mean?)
   • individual (what does individual mean?)
   • someone (what does someone mean?)
   • somebody (what does somebody mean?)
   • mortal (what does mortal mean?)
   • human (what does human mean?)
   • soul (what does soul mean?)
   Hyponym(s)
   • anomalist (what does anomalist mean?)
   • exponent (what does exponent mean?)
   • alchemist (what does alchemist mean?)
   • aphorist (what does aphorist mean?)
   • bel esprit (what does bel esprit mean?)
   • clever Dick (what does clever Dick mean?)
   • clever clogs (what does clever clogs mean?)
   • decoder (what does decoder mean?)
   • decipherer (what does decipherer mean?)
   • egghead (what does egghead mean?)
   • genius (what does genius mean?)
   • mastermind (what does mastermind mean?)
   • brain (what does brain mean?)
   • Einstein (what does Einstein mean?)
   • highbrow (what does highbrow mean?)
   • mentor (what does mentor mean?)
   • wise man (what does wise man mean?)
   • scholar (what does scholar mean?)
   • scholarly person (what does scholarly person mean?)
   • student (what does student mean?)
   • skeptic (what does skeptic mean?)
   • sceptic (what does sceptic mean?)
   • doubter (what does doubter mean?)
   • specifier (what does specifier mean?)
   • subjectivist (what does subjectivist mean?)
   • synthesist (what does synthesist mean?)
   • synthesizer (what does synthesizer mean?)
   • synthesiser (what does synthesiser mean?)
   • theorist (what does theorist mean?)
   • theoretician (what does theoretician mean?)
   • theorizer (what does theorizer mean?)
   • theoriser (what does theoriser mean?)
   • thinker (what does thinker mean?)
   • creative thinker (what does creative thinker mean?)
   • mind (what does mind mean?)
   • thinker (what does thinker mean?)
   • visionary (what does visionary mean?)
   • illusionist (what does illusionist mean?)
   • seer (what does seer mean?)
   • wonderer (what does wonderer mean?)

INTELLECTUAL as ADJECTIVE

1. Meaning
   • appealing to or using the intellect
   Usage Example(s)
   • 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
   Antonym(s)
   • nonintellectual (what does nonintellectual mean?)
   Similar To
   • highbrow (what does highbrow mean?)
   • highbrowed (what does highbrowed mean?)
   • rational (what does rational mean?)
   • reflective (what does reflective mean?)
   • good (what does good mean?)
   • serious (what does serious mean?)
   • sophisticated (what does sophisticated mean?)
   See Also
   • educated (what does educated mean?)
   • mental (what does mental mean?)
   • scholarly (what does scholarly mean?)
   Attribute(s)
   • mind (what does mind mean?)
   • intellect (what does intellect mean?)
2. Meaning
   • of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind
   Synonym(s)
   • noetic (what does noetic mean?)
   • rational (what does rational mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • intellectual problems
   • the triumph of the rational over the animal side of man
   Similar To
   • mental (what does mental mean?)
3. Meaning
   • involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct
   Synonym(s)
   • cerebral (what does cerebral mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • a cerebral approach to the problem
   • cerebral drama
   Antonym(s)
   • emotional (what does emotional mean?)
4. Meaning
   • of or relating to the intellect
   Usage Example(s)
   • his intellectual career
   Pertainym(s)
   • mind (what does mind mean?)
   • intellect (what does intellect mean?)