appealing to or engaging the intellect: intellectual pursuits.
of or relating to the intellect or its use: intellectual powers.
possessing or showing intellect or mental capacity, especially to a high degree: an intellectual person.
guided or developed by or relying on the intellect rather than upon emotions or feelings; rational.
characterized by or suggesting a predominance of intellect:an intellectual way of speaking.
noun
a person of superior intellect.
a person who places a high value on or pursues things of interest to the intellect or the more complex forms and fields of knowledge, as aesthetic or philosophical matters, especially on an abstract and general level.
an extremely rational person; a person who relies on intellect rather than on emotions or feelings.
a person professionally engaged in mental labor, as a writer or teacher.
intellectuals,Archaic.
the mental faculties.
things pertaining to the intellect.
Origin of intellectual
First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English, from Latin intellēctuālis, equivalent to intellēctu-, stem of intellēctus intellect + -ālis -al1
I want them to be able to have a positive intellectual experience and be able to give some different thinking that goes along with that emotion that they feel.
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This group of nations must have amenable regulations and trade policies to attract international investors, understandable labor laws, and clear respect for intellectual property.
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A model can seem relatively easy to put together, so easy that it’s not even much of an intellectual challenge.
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The soldiers were accused of stealing intellectual property, business plans, and negotiation strategies from companies such as Westinghouse and US Steel.
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We started to build intellectual property in energy transmission generation, to look at how you could rebuild the grid—the thing that hasn’t been upgraded in 150 years.
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Even the hot Jewish women I mentioned above did something a bit more “intellectual” than pageantry: acting.
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However, intellectual honesty is the first thing to go when you are forced to constantly pander to your base.
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An IQ below 70 generally indicates someone with intellectual disability (ID).
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This is not to suggest that Mailer ever lost the intellectual toughness which was central to his work.
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Leaders with political and intellectual responsibilities conjured up those evils, and the results are on their hands.
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The leisure of two other days, might be devoted to intellectual improvement, and the pursuits of taste.
A Treatise on Domestic Economy|Catherine Esther Beecher
We seek for the origin of the savage factor of myth in one aspect of the intellectual condition of savages.
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On my way my mind was full of those ideas which related to my intellectual condition.
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Both went forth from their native place longing to find a broader field of action and greater scope for their intellectual powers.
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The intellectual effort of the Middle Ages had very rarely clothed itself in an artistic literary form.
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British Dictionary definitions for intellectual
intellectual
/ (ˌɪntɪˈlɛktʃʊəl) /
adjective
of or relating to the intellect, as opposed to the emotions
appealing to or characteristic of people with a developed intellectintellectual literature
expressing or enjoying mental activity
noun
a person who enjoys mental activity and has highly developed tastes in art, literature, etc