Found 3 items, similar to intellectual.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: intellectual cendekiawan, terpelajar
English → English (WordNet) Definition: intellectual intellectual n : a person who uses the mind creatively [syn: intellect] intellectual adj 1: of or relating to the intellect; “his intellectual career” 2: 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: rational, noetic] 3: 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] 4: involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct; “a cerebral approach to the problem”; “cerebral drama” [syn: cerebral] [ant: emotional]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Intellectual Intellectual \In`tel*lec"tu*al\, n. 1. The intellect or understanding; mental powers or faculties. [1913 Webster] Her husband, for I view far round, not nigh, Whose higher intellectual more I shun. --Milton. [1913 Webster] I kept her intellectuals in a state of exercise. --De Quincey. [1913 Webster] 2. A learned person or one of high intelligence; especially, one who places greatest value on activities requiring exercise of the intelligence, such as study, complex forms of knowledge, literature and aesthetic matters, reflection and philosophical speculation; a member of the intelligentsia; as, intellectuals are often apalled at the inanities that pass for entertainment on television. [PJC] Intellectual \In`tel*lec"tu*al\ (?; 135), a. [L. intellectualis: cf. F. intellectuel.] [1913 Webster] 1. Belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental; as, intellectual powers, activities, etc. [1913 Webster] Logic is to teach us the right use of our reason or intellectual powers. --I. Watts. [1913 Webster] 2. 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. [1913 Webster] Who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity? --Milton. [1913 Webster] 3. Suitable for exercising the intellect; formed by, and existing for, the intellect alone; perceived by the intellect; as, intellectual employments. [1913 Webster] 4. Relating to the understanding; treating of the mind; as, intellectual philosophy, sometimes called “mental” philosophy. [1913 Webster]