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Meaning of intellectual

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  intellectual
      adj 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" [syn: {intellectual},
             {rational}, {noetic}]
      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" [ant: {nonintellectual}]
      3: involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct; "a
         cerebral approach to the problem"; "cerebral drama" [syn:
         {cerebral}, {intellectual}] [ant: {emotional}]
      n 1: a person who uses the mind creatively [syn: {intellectual},
           {intellect}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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