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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

... views in religion; by which expression we do not here signify that neither had taken up a certain line of opinion, though this was the case also; but that neither of them—how could they at their age?—had placed his religion on an intellectual basis. It may be as well to state more distinctly what a "view" is, what it is to be "viewy," and what is the state of those who have no "views." When, then; men for the first time look upon the world of politics or religion, all that they find there meets their mind's eye as a landscape ...

— Loss and Gain - The Story of a Convert • John Henry Newman

... work, the Philosophy of Heraclitus, projected more than ten years before, and it was concluded in 1861, as the event proved, by the publication of his System of the Acquired Rights. Midway between the two appeared a dramatic composition, Franz von Sickingen, which served both as an intellectual diversion from the more serious studies in philosophy and law and as a personal confession of faith on the part of the author. None of these works can be pronounced an unqualified success. The philosophy of Heraclitus was too obscure to exert any great ...

— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. X. • Kuno Francke

... and there can be little doubt that these five years were the happiest, and in reality the most prosperous, of Scott's life. He had at once attained great fame, and was increasing it by each successive poem; his immense intellectual activity found vent besides in almost innumerable projects, some of which were in a way successful, and some of which, if they did himself no very great good pecuniarily, did good to more or less deserving friends and proteges. His health had, ...

— Sir Walter Scott - Famous Scots Series • George Saintsbury

... the first time her master brought home Wenham Lake ice from Port of Spain, was scandalised at the dirtiness of the 'American water,' washed off the sawdust, and dried the ice in the sun. His was a case of Handy- Andyism, as that intellectual disease may be named, after Mr. Lover's hero; like that of the Obeah-woman, when she tried to bribe the white gentleman with half a dozen of bottled beer; a case of muddle-headed craft and elaborate silliness, which keeps no proportion between the means and the end; ...

— At Last • Charles Kingsley

... people easing themselves on seats, said, "God forbid I should sit where I could not get up to salute my elders." In short, their answers were so sententious and pertinent, that one said well that intellectual much more truly than athletic exercise ...

— Plutarch's Lives • A.H. Clough

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