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/ˌɪntəlˈɛktʃuəl/ /ˌɪnəlˈɛktʃuəl/ Listen

Intellectual

adjective

1.

Of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind. Synonyms: noetic, rational. "The triumph of the rational over the animal side of man"

2.

Appealing to or using the intellect. "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"

3.

Involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct. Synonym: cerebral. "Cerebral drama"

noun

1.

A person who uses the mind creatively. Synonym: intellect.

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"Intellectual" Quotes from Famous Books

... But the influence which constantly proceeds from these cities—on their journalism, not only, or on the issues of their book-presses, or on the multitudes going forth from them, but on the example presented by them of intellectual, social, religious life—this, for shadow and check, or for fine inspiration, is already of unlimited extent, of incalculable force. It must increase as they expand, and are lifted before the country to ...

— Opening Ceremonies of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge, May 24, 1883 • William C. Kingsley

... in common with either spiritualists, soul-believers, on the one hand, or materialists on the other. So far as the mortality of the soul is concerned, he may be either a spiritualist or a materialist But spiritualism or materialism is to him only an intellectual pastime. It is not his trade. In his actual work he seeks only practical results, and so confines himself wholly to the actual ...

— Psychology and Achievement • Warren Hilton

... conceive. She had to give it up. They recalled to her mind a little group of people in Helium who had forsworn the pleasures of life in the pursuit of knowledge. They were rather patronizing in their relations with those whom they thought not so intellectual. They considered themselves quite superior. She smiled at recollection of a remark her father had once made concerning them, to the effect that if one of them ever dropped his egotism and broke it it would take a week to fumigate Helium. ...

— The Chessmen of Mars • Edgar Rice Burroughs

... consideration influencing her resolutions, threats or fear least of all; when once she longs for peace, she insists on its not being from apprehension of the enemy, but only from abhorrence of bloodshed. The action of life does not develop merely the intellectual powers: between success and failure, in conflict and effort and victory, the character moulds itself and acquires its ruling tone. Her immense good fortune fills her with unceasing self-confidence, which is at the same time ...

— A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6) • Leopold von Ranke

... Cooley, in his way," remarked her companion graciously. "Not especially intellectual or that, you know. His father was a manufacturer chap, I believe, or something of the sort. I suppose you saw a ...

— His Own People • Booth Tarkington

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