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intellectual

(,/I/n't/-/l/E/k/tS//u//@/l )

appealing to or using the intellect(adj.all)

Example:
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.

Antonym:
nonintellectual

source: wordnet30
involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct(adj.all)

Synonym:
cerebral
Antonym:
emotional

source: wordnet30
Belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental; as, intellectual powers, activities, etc.(adjective)

source: webster1913

a person who uses the mind creatively(noun.person)

Synonym:
intellect

source: wordnet30
The intellect or understanding; mental powers or faculties.(noun)

source: webster1913

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