Intellectual Synonyms and Antonyms

ĭntl-ĕkcho͝o-əl
Relating to or performed by the mind
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. cerebral
  2. intellective
  3. mental
  4. noetic
  5. psychic
  6. psychical
  7. psychological
  8. rational
Antonyms:
  1. stupid
  2. ignorant
  3. foolish
  4. simple
Appealing to or engaging the intellect
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. cerebral
  2. sophisticated
  3. thoughtful
  4. highbrow
Antonyms:
  1. nonintellectual
  2. emotional
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A person of great mental ability
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. genius
  2. scholar
  3. brain
  4. intellect
  5. egghead
  6. thinker
  7. highbrow
  8. pundit
  9. philosopher
  10. academic
  11. brainy
  12. academician
  13. bookworm
  14. cerebral
  15. member of the intelligentsia
  16. mind
  17. einstein
  18. longhair
  19. bluestocking
  20. braintruster
  21. literati
  22. mental
  23. illuminati
  24. studious
Antonyms:
  1. ignoramus
  2. dunce
Having or showing intelligence, often of a high order
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. brilliant
  2. intelligent
  3. knowing
  4. knowledgeable
  5. brainy
Said of persons or beings
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. bookish
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Having or showing intellect, especially to a high degree.
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. intelligent

Words Related to Intellectual

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Intellectual Sentence Examples

  • No community living in full accordance with that code could fail to reach a high moral and intellectual level.

  • During the first two years of her intellectual life, I required Helen to write very little.

  • The God of Descartes is not merely the creator of the material universe; he is also the father of all truth in the intellectual world.

  • His interest in art was evidently intellectual.

  • But the intellectual and what is called spiritual man in him were slumbering as in an infant.

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