intellectual
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intellectual
- /ˌɪntəˈlɛkt͡ʃʊəl/
- /ˌɪntəˈlɛkt͡ʃwəl/
- /ˌɪntəˈlɛkt͡ʃəl/
Where it comes from
From Old French intellectuel, from Latin intellectualis.
adjective more intellectual · most intellectual · intellectuall
- Pertaining to, or performed by, the intellect; mental or cognitive. intellectual powers, activities, etc.
- Endowed with intellect; having a keen sense of understanding; having the capacity for higher forms of knowledge or thought; characterized by intelligence or cleverness an intellectual person
- Suitable for exercising one's intellect; perceived by the intellect intellectual employments
- Relating to the understanding; treating of the mind. intellectual philosophy, sometimes called "mental" philosophy
- Spiritual. I deem not profitless those fleeting moods / Of shadowy exultation; not for this, / That they are kindred to our purer mind / And intellectual life […]
Similar: cerebral, intellectual, logical, mental, rational
noun intellectuals · intellectuall
- An intelligent, learned person, especially one who discourses about learned matters. It should be noted that there is now no intelligentsia that is not in some sense "Left". Perhaps the last right-wing intellectual was T. E. Lawrence. Since about 1930 everyone describable as an “intellectual” has lived in a state of chronic discontent with the existing order.
- The intellect or understanding; mental powers or faculties. […] although their intellectuals had not failed in the theory of truth, yet did the inservient and brutall faculties control the suggestion of reason […]
