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intellectual

adjective noun

Appealing to or using the intellect

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Word Facts

Word length
12
Starts with
I
Ends with
L
Contains
NT
Scrabble score
14
CEFR level
B2

How it sounds

Pronunciation

ˌɪntəˈlɛk(t)ʃʊəl

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Meaning

Definitions

adjective

  1. Appealing to or using the intellect

    “Satire is an intellectual weapon”

adjective

  1. Of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind

    “Intellectual problems”

adjective

  1. Involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct

    “A cerebral approach to the problem”

noun

  1. A person who uses the mind creatively

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Example Sentences

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 problems
The triumph of the rational over the animal side of man
A cerebral approach to the problem
Cerebral drama

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