Intellectual - Definition

adj 1: 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: intellectual,
rational, noetic]
2: 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" [ant: nonintellectual]
3: involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct; "a
cerebral approach to the problem"; "cerebral drama" [syn:
cerebral, intellectual] [ant: emotional]
n 1: a person who uses the mind creatively [syn: intellectual,
intellect]