intellectual

1. A person who uses the mind creatively (synset 109644715)
   is a type of: individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being
   subtypes:

   • anomalist - someone who has a special interest in exceptional cases
   • exponent - someone who expounds and interprets or explains
   • alchemist - one who was versed in the practice of alchemy and who sought an elixir of life and a panacea and an alkahest and the philosopher's stone
   • aphorist - someone who formulates aphorisms or who repeats aphorisms
   • bel esprit - a witty or clever person with a fine mind
   • clever clogs, clever dick - an intellectual who is ostentatiously and irritatingly knowledgeable
   • decipherer, decoder - the kind of intellectual who converts messages from a code to plain text
   • egghead - an intellectual; a very studious and academic person
   • expositor, expounder - a person who explains
   • brain, brainiac, einstein, genius, mastermind - someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality
   • highbrow - a person of intellectual or erudite tastes
   • mentor, wise man - a wise and trusted guide and advisor
   • bookman, scholar, scholarly person, student - a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines
   • doubter, sceptic, skeptic - someone who habitually doubts accepted beliefs
   • specifier - someone who draws up specifications giving details (as for obtaining a patent)
   • subjectivist - a person who subscribes to subjectivism
   • synthesiser, synthesist, synthesizer - an intellectual who synthesizes or uses synthetic methods
   • idealogue, theoretician, theoriser, theorist, theorizer - someone who theorizes (especially in science or art)
   • creative thinker, mind, thinker - an important intellectual
   • thinker - someone who exercises the mind (usually in an effort to reach a decision)
   • illusionist, seer, visionary - a person with unusual powers of foresight
   • wonderer - someone who is curious about something
   same as: intellect

1. Of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind (synset 301784888)
   "intellectual problems"; "the triumph of the rational over the animal side of man"
   similar to: mental - involving the mind or an intellectual process
   same as: noetic, rational
2. Appealing to or using the intellect (synset 301335338)
   "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"
   also:

   • educated - possessing an education (especially having more than average knowledge)
   • mental - involving the mind or an intellectual process
   • scholarly - characteristic of scholars or scholarship
   tells us about: intellect, mind - knowledge and intellectual ability
   similar to:

   • highbrow, highbrowed - highly cultured or educated
   • rational - having its source in or being guided by the intellect (as distinguished from experience or emotion)
   • reflective - devoted to matters of the mind
   • good, serious - appealing to the mind
   • sophisticated - intellectually appealing
3. Involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct (synset 301933854)
   "a cerebral approach to the problem"; "cerebral drama"
   same as: cerebral

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