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1. Of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind
   "intellectual problems"
   - rational, noetic
    
2. Appealing to or using the intellect
   "satire is an intellectual weapon"; "intellectual workers engaged in creative literary or artistic or scientific labour"; "has tremendous intellectual sympathy for oppressed people"; "coldly intellectual"; "sort of the intellectual type"; "intellectual literature"
    
3. Involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct
   - cerebral

1. A person who uses the mind creatively
   - intellect

Derived forms: intellectuals

See also: educated, good, highbrow, highbrowed, intellect, intellectually, mental, mind, rational, reflective, scholarly, serious, sophisticated

Type of: individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul

Antonym: nonintellectual

Encyclopedia: Intellectual