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Synonyms for intellectual
ˌɪn tlˈɛk tʃu əlin·tel·lec·tu·al

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  1. intellectualnoun

    Antonyms:
    non-intellectual

  2. intellectualnoun

    Belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental; as, intellectual powers, activities, etc.

    Antonyms:
    non-intellectual

  3. intellectualadjective

    Endowed with intellect; having the power of understanding; having capacity for the higher forms of knowledge or thought; characterized by intelligence or mental capacity; as, an intellectual person.

    Antonyms:
    non-intellectual

  4. intellectualadjective

    Antonyms:
    non-intellectual

  5. intellectualadjective

    Antonyms:
    non-intellectual

English Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. intellectual

    Clever, as used in England, especially implies an aptitude for study or learning, and for excellent tho not preeminent mental achievement. The early New England usage as implying simple and weak good nature has largely affected the use of the word throughout the United States, where it has never been much in favor. Smart, indicating dashing ability, is now coming to have a suggestion of unscrupulousness, similar to that of the word sharp, which makes its use a doubtful compliment. The discriminating use of such words as able, gifted, talented, etc., is greatly preferable to an excessive use of the word clever. Compare ACUMEN; ASTUTE; POWER.

    Synonyms:
    able, adroit, apt, bright, capable, clever, dexterous, expert, gifted, happy, ingenious, intelligent, keen, knowing, quick, quick-witted, sharp, skilful, smart, talented

    Antonyms:
    awkward, bungling, clumsy, dull, foolish, idiotic, ignorant, senseless, slow, stupid, thick-headed, witless

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. intellectual

    Synonyms:
    mental, metaphysical, psychological, inventive, learned, cultured

    Antonyms:
    unintellectual, unmetaphysical, unlearned

Princeton's WordNet4.0 / 1 vote

  1. intellectual, intellectadjective

    a person who uses the mind creatively

    Synonyms:
    mind, understanding, reason, intellect

    Antonyms:
    lowbrow, mindless, physical, lowbrowed, philistine, anti-intellectual, uncultivated, nonintellectual

  2. intellectual, rational, noeticadjective

    of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind

    "intellectual problems"; "the triumph of the rational over the animal side of man"

    Synonyms:
    cerebral, rational, noetic

    Antonyms:
    anti-intellectual, uncultivated, lowbrowed, mindless, physical, lowbrow, nonintellectual, philistine

  3. intellectualadjective

    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"

    Synonyms:
    cerebral, rational, noetic

    Antonyms:
    philistine, physical, nonintellectual, uncultivated, lowbrowed, mindless, lowbrow, anti-intellectual

  4. cerebral, intellectualadjective

    involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct

    "a cerebral approach to the problem"; "cerebral drama"

    Synonyms:
    cerebral, rational, noetic

    Antonyms:
    anti-intellectual, physical, mindless, uncultivated, nonintellectual, lowbrowed, philistine, lowbrow

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. intellectualadjective

    Synonyms:
    mental, of the intellect, of the understanding

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How to use intellectual in a sentence?

  1. Miles Kindera:

    'I think therefore I am' is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.

  2. Don Rosenberg:

    We deeply value our relationships with customers, rarely resorting to the courts for assistance, but we also have an abiding belief in the need to protect intellectual property rights, apple continues to benefit from our intellectual property while refusing to compensate us.

  3. Paul Valery:

    ...in song the words tend to lose their significance, do often lose it, while at the other extreme, in current prose it is the musical value that tends to disappear - so that verse stands symmetrically, as it were, between song, on the one hand, and prose on the other - and is thus admirably and delicately balanced between the sensual and the intellectual power of language.

  4. Dustin Plunkett:

    When I was a kid, I was moving pretty much home to home, family member to family member, and nobody in my family knew how to support me because of my cleft palate and my intellectual disability.

  5. John Demers:

    China has now taken its place, alongside Russia, Iran and North Korea, in that shameful club of nations that provide a safe haven for cyber criminals in exchange for those criminals being on call to work for the benefit of the state, here to feed the Chinese Communist Partys insatiable hunger for American and other non-Chinese companies hard-earned intellectual property, including COVID-19 research.


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