Main entry: intellect, intellectual
Definition: a person who uses the mind creatively
Main entry: intellectual
Definition: appealing to or using the intellect
Usage: 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
Main entry: intellectual, noetic, rational
Definition: of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind
Usage: intellectual problems; the triumph of the rational over the animal side of man
Main entry: cerebral, intellectual
Definition: involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct
Usage: a cerebral approach to the problem; cerebral drama