intellectual
IPA: ɪntʌɫˈɛktʃuʌɫ
noun
- An intelligent, learned person, especially one who discourses about learned matters.
- (archaic) The intellect or understanding; mental powers or faculties.
adjective
- Pertaining to, or performed by, the intellect; mental or cognitive.
- Endowed with intellect; having a keen sense of understanding; having the capacity for higher forms of knowledge or thought; characterized by intelligence or cleverness
- Suitable for exercising one's intellect; perceived by the intellect
- Relating to the understanding; treating of the mind.
- (archaic, poetic) Spiritual.
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Examples of "intellectual" in Sentences
- ˜intellectual integrity™ is ambiguous between integrity of the intellect and the integrity of the intellectual.
- However, most who work in the field-including psychologists, activists, and bureaucrats-prefer the term intellectual disability.
- The term intellectual property refers to areas such as copyright, designs, and patents, confidential information and trademarks.
- The term intellectual property refers to areas such as copyright, designs, and patents, confidential information and trade marks.
- It may also be helpful to redefine IP within the company as information protection, since the term intellectual property fails to resonate with many employees.
- For those of you who may not be familiar with Objectivism, I would like to present to you the outlines of the Ojectivist point of view to help you under - stand why such an intellectual foundation is necessary for an * intellectual* defense of any ideas whether they are scientific, moral or political.
- It is true that a good deal is found in the dream content which might be understood as the result of another and more intellectual performance; but analysis shows conclusively every time that these _intellectual operations were already present in the dream thoughts, and have only been taken over by the dream content_.
- With regard to the intellectual and ethical condition of the soul and its destiny, the speculative thinkers of other nations, arguing from reason alone and having no divine revelation to guide or confirm their speculations, are agreed that the only way in which the soul, which belongs to a higher world, can be freed from this world of body and change is through _intellectual excellence_ and _right conduct_.
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