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

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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

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1. intellectual

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

   Antonyms:
   unintellectual, unmetaphysical, unlearned

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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

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1. intellectualadjective

   Synonyms:
   mental, of the intellect, of the understanding

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1. List of paraphrases for "intellectual":

   intellectuelle, intelectual, knowledge, intellectuals, mental, spiritual, intelligentsia, cognitive, wisdom, thinker, knowledge-based

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1. Adure Lord:

   The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.

2. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.:

   The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.

3. Albert Einstein:

   It is not the fruits of scientific research that elevate man and enrich his nature. but the urge to understand, the intellectual work, creative or receptive.

4. Kingman Brewster, Jr.:

   Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information.

5. Chuck Schumer:

   The key to a strong agreement is protecting our intellectual property here in America and stopping the Chinese from keeping out our best goods until we hand over our trade secrets.