Belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental; as, intellectual powers, activities, etc.

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.

Relating to the understanding; treating of the mind; as, intellectual philosophy, sometimes called "mental" philosophy.

The intellect or understanding; mental powers or faculties.

A learned person or one of high intelligence;

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.

someone who interacts more by using his or her intelligence than by feelings or activity and has high regard for intelligence; cognitive She was a rare kind of intellectual who enjoyed talking about her subject with anyone she met. intellectuality (n), intellectualize (v), intellect (n), intellectualism (n)

a person who uses the mind creatively

of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind; "intellectual problems"; "the triumph of the rational over the animal side of man"

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"

involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct; "a cerebral approach to the problem"; "cerebral drama"

a person knowledgable in one field who speaks out only in others

a person who can listen to the William Tell Overture and NOT think of the Lone Ranger

a person who enjoys playing with ideas

a person who has been educated beyond their intellegence

a person who has great mental abilities and intelligence

a person who is educated beyond his intelligence

a person who makes a living with words, either writing or talking or both, as opposed to doing really useful work, like construction, plumbing, ranching, farming and so forth

a person whose mind watches itself

a person who uses his/her intellect to study, reflect, and/or speculate on a variety of different ideas

a person who uses his or her intellect to study, reflect, and speculate on a variety of different idea s

a person who uses his or her intellect tostudy, reflect, and speculate on a variety of different ideas

An intellectual is a person who uses his or her intellect to work, study, reflect, speculate on, or ask and answer questions with regard to a variety of different ideas.