Intellectual synonyms
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Part of speech:
Intelligent; smart.
learned (related)
Derived from experience; acquired by learning.
longhair
A person considered to have excessively refined taste for the arts.
stupid (antonym)
Lacking in intelligence or exhibiting the quality of having been done by someone lacking in intelligence.
By analogy with a human brain, the part of a machine or computer that performs calculations.
(--- Slang) Emotionally upset; crazed:
Characterized by a method of expression generally found in books.
A person's individual ability to think and reason:
Any of various insects, especially booklice and silverfish, that infest books and feed on the paste in the bindings.
An intellectual; a highbrow.
rational (related)
(Mathematics) Capable of being expressed as a quotient of integers.
A highly intelligent person
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Appealing to or requiring the use of the intellect; intellectual rather than emotional:
Characterized by thoughtful interaction.
A specialist in a given branch of knowledge:
A learned person in India; someone with knowledge of Sanskrit, philosophy, religion and law; a Hindu scholar. [from 17th c.]
Inspiration, a mental leap, an extraordinary creative process.
A person who studies or is an expert in philosophy
Alternative form of academic.
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A person having or affecting highly cultivated, intellectual tastes; intellectual
member of the intelligentsia
A woman with strong scholarly or literary interests.
braintruster
studious (related)
Characterized by close attention; thoughtful
The literary intelligentsia.
ignorant (antonym)
(Slang) Ill-mannered, crude.
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foolish (antonym)
Ridiculous; absurd
simple (antonym)
Easy to understand, do, or carry out:
dunce (antonym)
A stupid person; a dolt.
ignoramus (antonym)
An ignorant and stupid person
Of, relating to, or generated by the intellect.
Beyond natural or known physical processes
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Of psychology
Highly complex, refined, or developed; characterized by advanced form, technique, etc.
Exhibiting or characterized by careful thought:
Highly intelligent.
Possessing knowledge, information, or understanding:
(Philosophy) The non-material substance or set of processes in which consciousness, perception, affectivity, judgement, thinking, and will are based.
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An intellectual, such as a philosopher or theologian.
thoughts (related)
Relating to or performed by the mind
ability (related)
Skill, expertness, or talent
nonintellectual (antonym)
Not intellectual
emotional (antonym)
Arousing or intended to arouse the emotions:
cultural (related)
moral (related)
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ideological (related)
political (related)
emergent (related)
philosophical (related)
linguistic (related)
aesthetic (related)
artistic (related)
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literary (related)
aesthetics (related)
(Now chiefly US) A member (especially a senior one) of the faculty at a college or university; an academic. [from 17th c.]
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