intellectual

intellectual has 9 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 12.

Definitions

• a.. Belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental; as, intellectual powers, activities, etc.
• a.. Endowed with intellect; having the power of understanding; having capacity for the higher forms of knowledge or thought; characterized by intelligence or mental capacity; as, an intellectual person.
• a.. Suitable for exercising the intellect; formed by, and existing for, the intellect alone; perceived by the intellect; as, intellectual employments.
• a.. Relating to the understanding; treating of the mind; as, intellectual philosophy, sometimes called "mental" philosophy.
• n.. The intellect or understanding; mental powers or faculties.
• n.. a person who uses the mind creatively
• a.. 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"
• a.. of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind; "intellectual problems"; "the triumph of the rational over the animal side of man"
• a.. involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct; "a cerebral approach to the problem"; "cerebral drama"