intellectual

/ɪntʌlˈɛktʃuʌl/

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Adjective
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"
Adjective
involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct; "a cerebral approach to the problem"; "cerebral drama"
Adjective Satellite
of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind; "intellectual problems"; "the triumph of the rational over the animal side of man"
Noun
a person who uses the mind creatively
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