noun
a person who uses the mind creatively
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adjective
of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind
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Examples
- intellectual problems
- the triumph of the rational over the animal side of man
adjective
appealing to or using the intellect
Examples
- 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
adjective
involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct
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Examples
- a cerebral approach to the problem
- cerebral drama