- [usually before noun] connected with or using a person’s ability to think in a logical way and understand things synonym mental
- Gifted children typically show great intellectual curiosity and a wide range of interests.
- an intellectual novel
Extra ExamplesTopics Working lifeb2- I don't think he has the intellectual skills necessary to study at this level.
- It can be very difficult to measure intellectual ability.
- She has a rigorously intellectual approach to the topic.
- Students should be able to develop both their creative and intellectual powers.
- Their political position is hard to justify in intellectual terms.
- There wasn't much opportunity for intellectual discussion.
- You can't really appreciate art from a purely intellectual standpoint.
- (of a person) well educated and enjoying activities in which you have to think seriously about things
- She's very intellectual.
Extra Examples- He's extremely bright, but not really intellectual.
- The play was obviously written for an intellectual audience.
- Her works were popular among the intellectual elite of the time.
Word Originlate Middle English: from Latin intellectualis, from intellectus ‘understanding’, from intellegere ‘understand’, from inter ‘between’ + legere ‘choose’.
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