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intelectual — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • highbrow adj Appealing to sophisticated or intellectual tastes.
  • intellect noun The mental capacity for reasoning, understanding, and abstract thought.
  • intellectual adj Relating to the ability to think and reason, rather than to emotions or physical skill.
  • thinker noun Someone known for serious, deep thought, especially a philosopher or intellectual.
  • wit noun The ability to say clever, funny things quickly.

Senses

intelectual is used for these senses in English:

  • intellect A person who has that faculty to a great degree.
  • intellectual An intelligent, learned person, especially one who discourses about learned matters.
  • thinker An intellectual, such as a philosopher or theologian.
  • wit Intellectual ability; faculty of thinking, reasoning.

highbrow — full definition

  1. adj Appealing to sophisticated or intellectual tastes.
  2. noun A person with refined, intellectual tastes.

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