intellectual

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  1. adjective Of or relating to the intellect.
  2. adjective Rational rather than emotional.
  3. adjective Appealing to or engaging the intellect: an intellectual book; an intellectual problem.

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  • The side arm delivery, when the ball was bowled from a straight arm held at shoulder height, was curiously known as the intellectual style. —  Gallows Thief by Bernard Cornwell
  • Loving: In every sense -- intellectual, emotional, sensual, erotic, spiritual -- our island is a place to find and express and 'make' love. —  How to Save the World
  • It is my fervent wish that Japanese students and the Japanese government gives a cold shoulder to these anti-intellectual, anti-American schools. —  The Reality Check
  • "Belief in the guilt or innocence of Alger Hiss became a defining issue in American intellectual life," wrote Senator —  Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
  • But NONE of his films were what I would class as "intellectual" - at best, he's a fair hand at coming up with well-obscured plot twists.
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English, from Old French intellectuel, from Late Latin intellēctuālis, from Latin intellēctus, intellect; see intellect.

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  1. = French intellectuel = Provencal intellectual = Spanish intelectual = Portuguese intellectual = Italian intellettuale, from Late Latin intellectualis, pertaining to the understanding, from Latin intellectus, understanding: see intellect.
 

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/ɪntɛˈlɛktʃjuəl/
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