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Intellectual   /ˌɪntəlˈɛktʃuəl/  /ˌɪnəlˈɛktʃuəl/   Listen
adjective
Intellectual  adj.  
1.
Belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental; as, intellectual powers, activities, etc. "Logic is to teach us the right use of our reason or intellectual powers."
2.
Endowed with intellect; having the power of understanding; having capacity for the higher forms of knowledge or thought; characterized by intelligence or mental capacity; as, an intellectual person. "Who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity?"
3.
Suitable for exercising the intellect; formed by, and existing for, the intellect alone; perceived by the intellect; as, intellectual employments.
4.
Relating to the understanding; treating of the mind; as, intellectual philosophy, sometimes called "mental" philosophy.



noun
Intellectual  n.  
1.
The intellect or understanding; mental powers or faculties. "Her husband, for I view far round, not nigh, Whose higher intellectual more I shun." "I kept her intellectuals in a state of exercise."
2.
A learned person or one of high intelligence; especially, One who places greatest value on activities requiring exercise of the intelligence, such as study, complex forms of knowledge, literature and aesthetic matters, reflection and philosophical speculation; a member of the intelligentsia; as, intellectuals are often apalled at the inanities that pass for entertainment on television.






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"Intellectual" Quotes from Famous Books



... Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the Director-General of the World Intellectual Property Organization and the Secretary-General of the Organization of American States, or their representatives, may attend meetings of the Committee ...
— The Universal Copyright Convention (1988) • Coalition for Networked Information

... window. Of course, like all tables of the kind, it was "littered." I never read of a library table in a newspaper that was not "littered." The reporter spied everything upon it at once, "letters, newspapers, books, pens, ink bottles, pencils, and writing-paper." All of which, of course, indicated intellectual supremacy to the reporter. The chair at my table was "stiff backed," and, amazing fact, it was "without a cushion." In front of the chair, but on the table, the reporter discovered an "open book," which he concluded ...
— T. De Witt Talmage - As I Knew Him • T. De Witt Talmage

... a matter of great doubt whether any greater intellectual ability would not have rather detracted from than increased Garibaldi's power as a popular leader. I myself feel assured that the simplicity, the trustfulness, the implicit reliance on the goodness of a cause as a reason for its success, are qualities ...
— Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General - Originally Published In Blackwood's Magazine - 1864 • Charles Lever

... business engaged him not abroad, in his home conversation, to have him delight to instruct and open her views, and inspire her with an ambition to enlarge her mind, and more and more to excel! What an intellectual kind of married life would such persons find theirs! And how suitable to the rules of policy and self-love in the gentleman; for is not the wife, and are not her improvements, all his own?—Absolutely, as I may say, his own? And does not ...
— Pamela (Vol. II.) • Samuel Richardson

... affectionate expressions always pleased her, for she wondered sometimes if Clarence could be a cold and unresponsive husband. He was not a very ardent lover, and grey-eyed, intellectual Beth Woodburn had a love-hungering heart, though ...
— Beth Woodburn • Maud Petitt


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