| Definitions of 'intellectual' |
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1. (adj) intellectual, intellect
a person who uses the mind creatively
2. (adj) 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"
3. (adj) 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"
4. (adj) cerebral, intellectual
involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct
"a cerebral approach to the problem"; "cerebral drama"
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