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A person who uses the mind creatively
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intellectual
Word definitions for intellectual in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental or cognitive; as, intellectual powers, activities, etc. 2 Endowed with intellect; having the power of understanding; having capacity for the higher forms of knowledge or thought; characterized by ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Intellectual \In`tel*lec"tu*al\, n. The intellect or understanding; mental powers or faculties. Her husband, for I view far round, not nigh, Whose higher intellectual more I shun. --Milton. I kept her intellectuals in a state of exercise. --De Quincey. ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "grasped by the understanding" (rather than by the senses), from Old French intellectuel and directly from Latin intellectualis "relating to the understanding," from intellectus "discernment, understanding," from past participle stem of intelligere ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. of or relating to the intellect; "his intellectual career" of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind; "intellectual problems"; "the triumph of the rational over the animal side of man" [syn: rational , noetic ] appealing to or using the ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES an intellectual/physical/technical etc challenge ▪ I love the physical challenge of climbing. emotional/intellectual/spiritual nourishment ▪ a child starved of emotional nourishment intellectual curiosity ▪ Highly ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
An intellectual is a person who engages in critical study , thought , and reflection about the reality of society, and proposes solutions for the normative problems of that society, and, by such discourse in the public sphere , he or she gains authority ...
Usage examples of intellectual.
intellectual-Principle, the veritable, abiding and not fluctuant since not taking intellectual quality from outside itself.
Actualization is predicable in the Intellectual Realm and whether all is in Actualization there, each and every member of that realm being an Act, or whether Potentiality also has place there.
But after what mode does Actualization exist in the Intellectual Realm?
Then, everything, in the intellectual is in actualization and so all There is Actuality?
This feeling alone would make your most kind and wise admonitions, on the subject of the economy of intellectual force, valuable to me.
The Aenean intellectual community took little serious interest in the undercultures on its own planet.
But how does the soul enter into body from the aloofness of the Intellectual?
Between the name, the ancestry, the manner, the looks, the charm, the ease and the intellectual ability, whatever election Caesar contested would see him returned at the top of the poll.
The Indian issue makes a certain amount of stir here, but less than one would expect because all the big newspapers have conspired to misrepresent it and the Indian intellectuals in this country go out of their way to antagonize those likeliest to help them.
Principle not dwelling in the higher regions, one not powerful enough to ensure the permanence of the existences in which it is exhibited, one which in its coming into being and in its generative act is but an imitation of an antecedent Kind, and, as we have shown, cannot at every point possess the unchangeable identity of the Intellectual Realm.
There is not simply an inquiry as to the value of classic culture, a certain jealousy of the schools where it is obtained, a rough popular contempt for the graces of learning, a failure to see any connection between the first aorist and the rolling of steel rails, but there is arising an angry protest against the conditions of a life which make one free of the serene heights of thought and give him range of all intellectual countries, and keep another at the spade and the loom, year after year, that he may earn food for the day and lodging for the night.
Chopin, who was not very intellectual, felt ill at ease amongst all these literary men, these reformers, arguers and speechifiers.
One of the few intellectuals who could articulate, in abstract terms, the pragmatic motivations of the man from Prince Albert was Roy Faibish, who served through270 Exercise of Power out most of the Diefenbaker Years as special assistant to Alvin Hamilton.
It is a principle with us that one who has attained to the vision of the Intellectual Beauty and grasped the beauty of the Authentic Intellect will be able also to come to understand the Father and Transcendent of that Divine Being.
Intellectual-Principle by means of which she has attained the vision, herself made over into Intellectual-Principle and becoming that principle so as to be able to take stand in that Intellectual space.