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Definition of Intellectual
Intellectual

Belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental; as, intellectual powers, activities, etc.

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.

Suitable for exercising the intellect; formed by, and existing for, the intellect alone; perceived by the intellect; as, intellectual employments.

Relating to the understanding; treating of the mind; as, intellectual philosophy, sometimes called "mental" philosophy.

The intellect or understanding; mental powers or faculties.

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Intellectual Quotations

Earlier in my life, I performed a lot of music. Some of it because I felt it was a demonstration, or a representation of certain intellectual concepts that were very exciting and important.
Michael T. Thomas

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
Albert Einstein

You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Samuel Johnson

The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers.
Benjamin Banneker

Intellectual Translations

intellectual in Dutch is intellectueel, verstandelijk
intellectual in French is intellecvwgl
intellectual in Norwegian is forstandsmessig, intellektuell
intellectual in Portuguese is intelectual
intellectual in Spanish is intelectual
intellectual in Swedish is intellektuell


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