INTELLECTUAL

• (noun) a person who uses the mind creatively

  synonyms : intellect

• (adj.) appealing to or using the intellect

  "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 literature"

• (adj.) involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct

  "a cerebral approach to the problem", "cerebral drama"

  synonyms : cerebral

  The editor advised the new batch of journalists to have a cerebral approach to the news rather than a sensitive one. -added by Aswathy_inlas

• (adj.) of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind

  "intellectual problems", "the triumph of the rational over the animal side of man"

  synonyms : noetic , rational

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