intellectual

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I love his work, and his intellectual exercise into improvement is great.

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Quick take

a person who uses the mind creatively

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of intellectual gathered in one view.

noun

a person who uses the mind creatively

adjective

of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind; "intellectual problems"; "the triumph of the rational over the animal side of man"

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"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for intellectual.

noun

a person who uses the mind creatively

adjective

of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind; "intellectual problems"; "the triumph of the rational over the animal side of man"

adjective

involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct; "a cerebral approach to the problem"; "cerebral drama"

Example sentences

I love his work, and his intellectual exercise into improvement is great.

I have worked with Disney's intellectual property teams in the past, and I'm blown away that this slipped under the radar.

It's anti-intellectual bullshit with many words and zero points.

Richard Posner is probably the most prolific legal intellectual not on the supreme court.

And so, unfortunately, it is an oft-enjoyed poison in intellectual circles.

Certain classes of 'geeks' feeling they have found a better model of knowledge transmission, even if they are wrong, than the academic model is not anti-intellectualism.

Is there something about being a musician or artist that disallows one from having a valid intellectual opinion taken for its own sake, without being patronized?

I was there essentially through misplaced intellectual curiosity, while others were there because their lives were so bad out of jail that crime was actually a rational survival choice.

I always find it somewhat ironic that these discussion about anti-intellectualism always seem to lack any knowledge of how old this very discussion is.

More important: the real anti-intellectualism to look out for is the 'trial of Socrates' kind, not disregarding one form of transmitting knowledge because of your own intellectual curiosity.

A musician/artist having an intellectual idea that isn't completely terrible -- like a quaint little animal trying to imitate us true intellectuals up here in our high tower of superiority.

You cannot wield the kind of economic power Google does and not be evil, at least for the working definition many people have of "evil".We've put a huge hunk of our intellectual and economic capital under the control of a marketing company.

Linking to a security research company will probably give better insight into the technical details how the attack happened, gratifying our intellectual curiosity, instead of just being a dumbed-down piece from some mass-market tech blog.

Silver presents a method of investigation that is not only epistemologically different from traditional punditry, but threatening to it, and their dislike is centered on the threat his method poses, not just its intellectual merits or misunderstanding thereof.

Still, there are peripheral functions like business development, marketing, intellectual property, privacy, policy, etc., where you can always find a few deadbeats that talk slick, but don't seem to have much to show for their time except hiring more people and making a few high impact appearances at meetings.