Intellectual /(?; 135)/

In·tel·lec·tu·al

Intellectual

a.
  1. Belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental; as, intellectual powers, activities, etc.
    Logic is to teach us the right use of our reason or intellectual powers.
  2. 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.
    Who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity?
  3. Suitable for exercising the intellect; formed by, and existing for, the intellect alone; perceived by the intellect; as, intellectual employments.
  4. Relating to the understanding; treating of the mind; as, intellectual philosophy, sometimes called “mental” philosophy.

Intellectual

n.
  1. The intellect or understanding; mental powers or faculties.
    Her husband, for I view far round, not nigh, Whose higher intellectual more I shun.
    I kept her intellectuals in a state of exercise.
  2. A learned person or one of high intelligence;