intellectual
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- noun
- /ˌɪntəˈlɛktʃuəl/
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intelectual
- Dunlop is one of those eccentric intellectuals quite common right now.
- public intellectuals
- artists and intellectuals
- scholars and intellectuals
And so I think most intellectuals are just naturally broad.
- And so I think most intellectuals are just naturally broad.
- Whereas the really intelligent people, the intellectuals are less important.
- Me and my fellow intellectuals, well, we're going.
- Punk music was invented by the intellectuals of the Situationist International.
- But but we intellectuals don't really don't follow any style.
- And that could seem trite and silly and ridiculous to an intellectual, but thoughts are things.
- And why should more intellectuals follow your lead and mixing high and low culture?
- I talked about how your parents are, you know, academics and intellectuals, intellectuals.
- He is a wonderful, if sad, example of an intellectual in power.
Examples
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People thought of him in international terms, as an intellectual who had been to Russia.
Fiction book (1999) -
Punk music was invented by the intellectuals of the Situationist International.
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So Cambridge was the intellectual centre of his life.
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We, we want to attract the best intellectual talents to this institution.
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You are one of my dearest friends and intellectual mentors.
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So for that generation of black intellectuals, Howard was the pinnacle.
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He's one of our foremost intellectuals, he is a personal friend...
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Well, Durkheim joined other prominent French intellectuals to protest the trial.
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His wife had met Celestine's father, Vincent Ertel, the French ex-Maoist intellectual, in Paris.
Fiction book (1996) -
As an intellectual, she dedicated her life to research and teaching at the university.
Synonyms
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A person with deep knowledge who studies a subject carefully for many years
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A person who has deep ideas about important subjects
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A person who thinks clearly and deeply about ideas and problems
A person who likes to study ideas and join serious debates
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
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Rights that protect things people create, like inventions, books, or logos
- Formal
A well-known person who writes or speaks about important public issues
- Offensive
Long, pointless thinking or talking that only shows off knowledge
How Intellectual
Surface Forms
Morphology
intellectual = intellectual (transparent) = intellect + ual
The noun is formed by conversion from the adjective 'intellectual', whose meaning is directly based on 'intellect' + '-ual'.
Etymology
Intellectual as a person comes from the Latin intellectus and intelligere, meaning 'to understand', and it shares the root with intelligent. So an intellectual is someone who uses their mind a lot—a thinker or a person who studies and talks about ideas.