Possessing a high degree of understanding or intelligence; given to pursuits that exercise the intellect; spec. devoted to academic or cultural…

Of an attribute, quality, condition, etc.: characteristic of or suited to such a woman.

Designating a person of a type regarded as characteristically having long hair; of or relating to… Designating an intellectual, aesthete, or…

Of or relating to intellectualism or intellectualists; of the nature of an intellectualist.

figurative. colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S.). = highbrow, adj. Cf. low-browed, adj. 2.

Of the nature of or characterized by high culture; rarefied; intellectually demanding.

of or relating to intellectualists or intellectualism.

Of, belonging to, or constituting a minority; (also) appealing to a small or select group of people. Sometimes, of culture: serious, intellectual…

With a head shaped like an egg; also transferred (see egghead, n.).