Meaning & Definition of Intellectual in English

1. A person who uses the mind creatively

1. Of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind

• "Intellectual problems"

• "The triumph of the rational over the animal side of man"

2. 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"

3. Involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct

• "A cerebral approach to the problem"

• "Cerebral drama"