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/ˌɪntəlˈɛktʃuəl/ /ˌɪnəlˈɛktʃuəl/ Listen

Intellectual

adjective

1.

Of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind. Synonyms: noetic, rational. "The triumph of the rational over the animal side of man"

2.

Appealing to or using the intellect. "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. Synonym: cerebral. "Cerebral drama"

noun

1.

A person who uses the mind creatively. Synonym: intellect.

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... request of Schikaneder, a Viennese manager, who had written the text from a fairy tale, the fantastic elements of which are peculiarly German in their humor. Mozart put great earnestness into the work, and made it the first German opera of commanding merit, which embodied the essential intellectual sentiment and kindly warmth of popular German life. The manager paid the composer but a trifle for a work whose transcendent success enabled him to build a new opera-house and laid the foundation of a large fortune. We are told, too, that at the time of Mozart's death in ...

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... thus sacred, even from the intrusion of intellectual inspiration, although richly ornamented, was of no remarkable extent. At other times the eye might have wandered with delight on the exquisite plants and flowers, scattered profusely over a noble terrace, to which a second door in the apartment conducted; but, at the present moment, the employment ...

— Antonina • Wilkie Collins

... probable, rather is impossible from the standpoint of evolution. We must say that these peculiarities of human family life are to be explained through the fact that man has passed through many more stages of evolution, particularly of intellectual evolution, than any of the animals below him. If we examine these peculiarities of man's family life carefully, we will see that they all can be explained through natural selection and man's higher intellectual development. That man has no ...

— Sociology and Modern Social Problems • Charles A. Ellwood

... even think of revenge till she was quite sure that revenge would be necessary. But she did think of it, and could not keep her thoughts from it for a moment. Could it be possible that she, with all her intellectual gifts as well as those of her outward person, should be thrown over by a man whom well as she loved him,—and she did love him with all her heart,—she regarded as greatly inferior to herself! He had promised to marry her; and he ...

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