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intellectual   (TTS Sound)

The noun intellectual has 1 sense

• intellectual, intellect -- (a person who uses the mind creatively)

The adj intellectual has 3 senses

• 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")


• 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")


• cerebral, intellectual -- (involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct; "a cerebral approach to the problem"; "cerebral drama")