intellectualin‧tel‧lec‧tu·al1 /ˌɪntəˈlektʃuəl◂/ ●●○ W3 adjective 
a job that requires considerable intellectual effort2an intellectual person is well-educated and interested in serious ideas and subjects such as science, literature etc: Mark’s very intellectual.3needing serious thought in order to be understood: an intellectual film—intellectually adverb: intellectually stimulating → intelligent
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- She likes reading those trendy intellectual magazines about politics and society.
- the intellectual development of children
- There seemed to be remarkably few cultural or intellectual events for the undergraduates at the university.
- Accordingly, differences in prior experiences can contribute to individual differences in intellectual development.
- It could have defended the frontiers, repressed religious intolerance and done something to accelerate economic and intellectual progress.
- It gives us everything from our connection to the outside world to our artistic and intellectual systems.
- She's a pretty child, but hardly his intellectual level, I should have thought.
- The fundamental issue in the current debate is whether environmental lead causes intellectual impairment or behavioural disturbances in children.
- The libretto and music, completed in 1928, came from the rambunctious intellectual environment of Paris between the two world wars.
- This intellectual activity was partly no doubt prompted by the blatant individualism of the New Right.
- Thus, the roots of all intellectual development are in early sensorimotor behavior.
Longman Language Activatorserious books, ideas etc that are intended for intelligent people
· She likes reading those trendy intellectual magazines about politics and society.· There seemed to be remarkably few cultural or intellectual events for the undergraduates at the university.
a book, article, or other piece of writing that is scholarly deals with a serious subject and is written in a very detailed way after a lot of study: · The organization is dedicated to scholarly research on life in the next millennium.· Fullington discovered 11 new species of land snails and wrote more than 90 scholarly articles and books.
intended for very intelligent and educated people and therefore not interesting for a lot of people: · He picked up a book that was lying on the floor. It was something highbrow - Kafka, I think.· Readers of tabloid newspapers are less interested in politics and less likely to tune into highbrow news programmes.
something such as an idea or statement that is profound shows a lot of knowledge and understanding of a serious subject: · The book contains a great many profound insights into human behaviour.· Further research has resulted in a more profound appreciation of the problem.· Burton's lecture was amusing as well as being profound.
dealing with a subject in an intelligent and sincere way rather than in an amusing way: · I must admit I find the serious newspapers rather boring.· At school we had to read works by serious writers like Shakespeare and Milton.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY a job that requires considerable intellectual effortCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES the artistic ferment of the late sixth century Evidence of his mental incapacity was never produced in court. a child starved of emotional nourishment a bunch of intellectual snobs intellectual snobberyCOLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
a job that requires considerable intellectual effort· No one doubts his intellectual abilities.· A degree is evidence of your academic ability in a particular subject area.
· I love the physical challenge of climbing.
(=the general way of thinking)· New inventions can change the intellectual climate.
· Highly intelligent people are full of intellectual curiosity.
the artistic ferment of the late sixth century Evidence of his mental incapacity was never produced in court. a child starved of emotional nourishment a bunch of intellectual snobs intellectual snobbery· He says he wanted to find out if he had the intellectual ability to complete a degree starting from nothing.· Almost all of the identified work-inhibited students had average to superior intellectual ability scores.· Relaxation or withdrawal of treatment before mid-childhood has been associated with a further decline in intellectual ability.· Only one student had a score that fell below the average range, and most had above-average intellectual ability scores.· He combined outstanding intellectual ability with a vigorous, highly disciplined, and formidable personality.· Mills refers to this intellectual ability as a certain flexibility or quality of the mind.· It is difficult to conceive of such thinking taking place without the growth and development of intellectual ability.· The issue of intellectual ability is especially important when considering the prevalence of mild dementia.
· Tests show that many intellectual activities are highly correlated.· Affect is responsible for the activation of intellectual activity and for the selection of which objects or events are acted on.· The level of intellectual activity there.· It refers to observable behaviors-sensorimotor and conceptual-that reflect intellectual activity.· This intellectual activity was partly no doubt prompted by the blatant individualism of the New Right.· It determines what contents intellectual activity focuses on.· He kept repeating: sustained intellectual activity.· Question Two: Do boys and girls participate equally in both physical and intellectual activities?
· I probably felt that you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, thought that the task was beyond my intellectual capacity.· Furthermore, the size and weight of the brain are not the only determinants of intellectual capacity.· The short answer to this question is no: it is not something which demands special intellectual capacity.· Excellence continued to be defined in terms of intellectual capacity in theoretical or abstract analysis and not in terms of the practical application of knowledge.· Paganism and extreme idolatry are indicative of a low level of intellectual capacity and of a limited concern for human welfare.
· There is, she says, little intellectual challenge, hardly any praise, not even much blame.· Lent was also the season when the Church confronted perhaps its most vexing intellectual challenge.· Problems, puzzles and policy issues Puzzles are mental tasks or games that present some intellectual challenge but are easily solved.· Judge Bork responded that it was the intellectual challenge that appealed to him.· But pleasure, and intellectual challenge, is in response to individual installations rather than to the exhibition as a whole.· They could see how much they enjoyed actually selling and missed its intellectual challenge and glamor.· There is no serious intellectual challenge to it.· It did not present the kind of intellectual challenges that had attracted me into science.
· The affinities between music and poetry have been familiar since antiquity, though they are largely ignored in the current intellectual climate.· Similarly, Labour in 1964 won because its message was in tune with the prevailing intellectual climate.· Nevertheless, the intellectual climate of the Cortes of Cadiz was anti-aristocratic.
· Finally, she lists the intellectual pursuit model, which is self-directed and self-motivated by intellectual curiosity.· It is rich in intellectual curiosity and academic and cultural diversity.· Where were the important elements: inventiveness, initiative, adaptability, intellectual curiosity, sensitivity, confidence, determination?· This was a matter of both intellectual curiosity and national security.· A shy, self-effacing man, Williams was self-taught, and showed an independent and determined intellectual curiosity.· There is far more high-mindedness, racial tolerance and intellectual curiosity than you might expect.· These investigations of the sun's luminosity are not just intellectual curiosity.· Chimp behavior holds insights into teaching humans self-esteem, intellectual curiosity and the ability to get along with others, she says.
· The co-option of an academic may well be a statement about the way in which the school values intellectual development.· Levels of intellectual development vary considerably among children.· But now the struggle is for methodology to really be geared towards stimulating intellectual development and problem solving.· Accordingly, differences in prior experiences can contribute to individual differences in intellectual development.· For themostpart she was portrayed as a frivolous ingenue whose emotional and intellectual development was gently guided by her serious-minded husband.· Vygotsky was concerned with the question of how social and cultural factors influence intellectual development.· The relationship between early sensorimotor development and later intellectual development has been established.· These changes in structures are a major aspect of intellectual development.
· Most of them applied themselves to their exercise books, their faces contorted with intellectual effort.· The central aim in intellectual effort is to live as fully as possible.· No intellectual effort need therefore be wasted on this bit of ruling-class chatter.· It was a mystery that had eluded the intellectual efforts of Isaac Newton and teased the mind of Albert Einstein.· Natural language indexing tends to shift the intellectual effort necessary for effective retrieval to the end-user.· The low level of intellectual effort was shocking.· Yet it is not a picture of some one taking things easy: rather of continual, if misdirected, intellectual effort.
· The opposition mostly represents the upper-middle class and intellectual elite.· In this area, change is very slow, and is confined almost entirely to the intellectual elite.· The source of objective legal rules thus appears to be the fully developed rationality of the intellectual elites of different nations.
· It was an age of intellectual ferment too.
· What, though, are the connections between criticism and this sense of intellectual freedom embedded in higher education?· Books can be dangerous because the reading and writing of them involves us in an exercise of intellectual freedom.· On the issue of intellectual freedom, however, contrasts begin to appear.· It was against a Jesuit who had written about comets and was a manifesto for intellectual freedom in science.
· They felt a need to reorder a broken world, a need that contributed greatly to their intellectual growth.· Reading, which in other settings has promoted the intellectual growth of a people, now threatens to arrest it.· Learning, education, and intellectual growth in most cases were restricted to the period from childhood to young adulthood.· Either of these extremes would result in abnormal intellectual growth.
· Contemporary intellectual history is an element in my present enterprise, though the very recent past is hard to see clearly.· Male philosophers have, in effect, been doing so since the beginning of intellectual history.
· It insisted on wholly open intellectual inquiry, and on a related entire tolerance.
· These differences are perhaps more acute on an intellectual level than in reality.· She also figured out that she wanted to work with people on an emotional as well as an intellectual level.· She's a pretty child, but hardly his intellectual level, I should have thought.· Geoffroy's challenge had a significance beyond the purely intellectual level.
· How different Oxford was from Nebraska ... Oxford, the very centre of intellectual life.· While Cooley bets his intellectual life upon inquiry that depends upon such methods, these strategies for learning may fall away.· In the United States the graduate school is the major arena of pedagogic activity and intellectual life.· I wanted an urban and intellectual life, not the desolation of a small farm.· On the other hand there was a great surge of Left-wing sentiment in the political and intellectual life of the labour movement.· The best demonstration that an academic person cares about others is sharing an active intellectual life.· It was imaginatively true also in commerce and industry, in religious and intellectual life, and in the arts.· He shares his intellectual life with literary scholars rather than the great sociologists.
· Effective intellectual property protection underpins this continued research and development.· This agreement obliges countries to have measures for the intellectual property protection of plant varieties.· The law of confidence can be a very useful adjunct to other intellectual property rights.· He has traveled widely, lecturing on such obscure but important topics as cryptography, intellectual property and cognitive theory.· He has, he says, no wish to compromise the commercial and intellectual property rights of the research based pharmaceutical companies.· Since the world economy now rests more on brains than on brawn, intellectual property protection is crucial to honest trade.
· A less complimentary analysis might be that value was placed on this because intellectual stimulation was at a premium on that unit.· But there was next to no creative intellectual stimulation.· Literature on Guillain-Barré syndrome places a high value on planning and implementing a programme to promote intellectual stimulation.· They can be valuable purely as a means of providing social companionship, activities of all descriptions, and intellectual stimulation.
· Leese's idiosyncratic views on race derived from his own experiences rationalized in terms of a particular intellectual tradition.· To split up work into its components mirrored the intellectual tradition of calculus.· Scholars in certain intellectual traditions may be less prepared for everyday life than those in current political leadership.
· It may seem pretentious to say so but it is intended in Gramsci's terms as an organic intellectual work.· They will inform my intellectual work.· In St Luke's Hospital he would not have been allowed to engage in demanding intellectual work.· Whether they choose to engage in serious intellectual work or not is up to them.· He never recovered, and for the rest of his life was incapable of intellectual work.· Reading this book, I am struck by how much intellectual work can revolve around playing with blocks.· Defining the academic too narrowly can leave many without intellectual work to do.· Doing intellectual work, I have always known, also makes things better for me.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
1relating to the ability to understand things and think intelligentlyintellectual development/ability/activity etc- I changed into my running clothes and did three miles while I went through the mental gymnastics of getting the case organized.
- None the less, great feats of mental gymnastics were per-formed to make them into atmospheric phenomena.
a job that requires considerable intellectual effort2an intellectual person is well-educated and interested in serious ideas and subjects such as science, literature etc: Mark’s very intellectual.3needing serious thought in order to be understood: an intellectual film—intellectually adverb: intellectually stimulating → intelligent