1. intellectual

adjective. ['ˌɪntəˈlɛktʃuːəl, ˌɪnəˈlɛktʃuːəl'] of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind.

Rhymes with Intellectual

• ineffectual

How do you pronounce intellectual?

Pronounce intellectual as ˌɪnəˈlɛkʧuəl.

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How do you spell intellectual? Is it intelectual ?

A common misspelling of intellectual is intelectual

Sentences with intellectual

1. Adjective
Girona was an important center of intellectual thought during medieval times and boasts a bustling university.

Quotes about intellectual

1. Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
- Ambrose Bierce

2. Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
- Christopher Morley

3. An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
- Charles Bukowski

2. anti-intellectual

noun. a person who is uninterested in intellectual pursuits.

3. anti-intellectual

adjective. smug and ignorant and indifferent or hostile to artistic and cultural values.

4. intellectual

noun. ['ˌɪntəˈlɛktʃuːəl, ˌɪnəˈlɛktʃuːəl'] a person who uses the mind creatively.

5. intellectual

adjective. ['ˌɪntəˈlɛktʃuːəl, ˌɪnəˈlɛktʃuːəl'] appealing to or using the intellect.

6. intellectual

adjective. ['ˌɪntəˈlɛktʃuːəl, ˌɪnəˈlɛktʃuːəl'] involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct.