Definition for Intellectual:

• 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"

Synonyms for Intellectual:

• adj.

  •academic (adjective)
  • scholarly.
  •all (adjective)
  • noetic,
  • rational.
  •deep (adjective)
  • sound.
  •intellectual (adjective)
  • psychological,
  • cerebral,
  • brainy,
  • thinking,
  • intelligent,
  • understanding,
  • egghead,
  • reasoning,
  • rational.
  •intelligent (adjective)
  • Comprehending,
  • brainy,
  • smart,
  • capable,
  • brilliant,
  • knowledgeable,
  • erudite,
  • genius,
  • bright,
  • knowing,
  • wise,
  • gifted,
  • intelligent,
  • perspicacious,
  • cogent,
  • worldly,
  • sagacious,
  • sophisticated,
  • clever,
  • sharp,
  • canny,
  • encyclopedic,
  • profound,
  • astute.
  •knowing (adjective)
  • learned,
  • knowing,
  • streetwise,
  • erudite,
  • wise,
  • competent,
  • encylopedic,
  • shrewd,
  • cognizant,
  • intelligent,
  • educated,
  • omniscient,
  • experienced,
  • versed,
  • canny,
  • informed.
  •learned (adjective)
  • philosophic,
  • polymath.
  •metaphysical (adjective)
  • Discarnate,
  • non-physical.
  •private (adjective)
  • inward.
  •ruminative (adjective)
  • ruminative.
  •sagacious (adjective)
  • adept,
  • intelligent,
  • sagacious,
  • master,
  • scholarly,
  • brilliant,
  • expert,
  • wise,
  • philosophic,
  • genius,
  • authoritative.
  •very smart (adjective)
  • highbrow,
  • intelligent,
  • studious,
  • bookish,
  • creative,
  • rational,
  • learned,
  • mental,
  • brainy,
  • thoughtful,
  • cerebral,
  • scholarly,
  • Intellective,
  • phrenic,
  • subjective,
  • highbrowed,
  • psychological,
  • inventive.
  •well-informed (adjective)
  • learned.

• n.

  •
  • insightful,
  • sound,
  • deductive,
  • meditative.
  •
  • mental,
  • Intellective,
  • psychical,
  • psychic,
  • pundit,
  • specialist.
  •
  • thoughtful,
  • well-read,
  • literate,
  • trained.
  •
  • ability.
  •
  • brain.
  •booklover (noun)
  • bookworm.
  •intellect (noun)
  • thinker,
  • Intellectuality.
  •intellectual (noun)
  • highbrow,
  • good,
  • serious,
  • noetic,
  • cerebral,
  • intellect,
  • sophisticated,
  • rational,
  • reflective,
  • highbrowed.
  •intelligence (noun)
  • mind.
  •learned person (noun)
  • Bookman.
  •mental (noun)
  • bookish,
  • studious.
  •person (noun)
  • intellect.
  •pundit (noun)
  • philosopher.
  •sage (noun)
  • consultant,
  • guru,
  • sage,
  • mandarin,
  • wise person,
  • savant,
  • authority,
  • thinker.
  •scholar (noun)
  • expert,
  • academic,
  • scholar,
  • philosopher,
  • student,
  • professor,
  • doctor,
  • master,
  • genius.
  •very smart person (noun)
  • brain,
  • egghead,
  • scholar,
  • whiz,
  • sage,
  • intelligentsia,
  • pundit,
  • wizard,
  • braintruster,
  • academician,
  • avant-garde,
  • doctor,
  • academic,
  • genius,
  • thinker,
  • einstein,
  • philosopher.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • generalist,
  • neat,
  • literati,
  • full-fledged,
  • pundit,
  • calculating,
  • thoughtful,
  • contemplative,
  • judicious,
  • middlebrow,
  • psychical,
  • gentlewoman,
  • overqualified,
  • pensive,
  • grad,
  • deductive,
  • kahuna,
  • Intellective,
  • literate,
  • meditative,
  • old-timer,
  • intelligentsia,
  • licentiate,
  • well-read,
  • cognoscenti.
  •
  • buff,
  • well-informed,
  • luminary,
  • cultivated,
  • seasoned,
  • brain,
  • certified.
  •
  • informed,
  • specialist,
  • critical,
  • keen.
  •
  • cosmopolitan,
  • graduate.
  •
  • resident.
  •
  • superior.
  •cultivated
  • cultured.
  •idealistic
  • platonic.
  •ideological
  • theoretical.
  •mental
  • mental,
  • psychic.
  •theoretical
  • abstract.
  •transcendent
  • transcendental.
  •Other relevant words:
  • dispassionate,
  • gentlewoman,
  • doubter,
  • ingenious,
  • conceptive,
  • theoretical,
  • literary,
  • scholastic,
  • sound,
  • know-it-all,
  • gravity,
  • einstein,
  • Quidnunc,
  • highbrow,
  • notional,
  • wise man,
  • seer,
  • alchemist,
  • cultivated,
  • cosmopolitan,
  • speculative,
  • studious,
  • Sophic,
  • illuminate,
  • happy,
  • intelectual,
  • glow,
  • cultured,
  • certified,
  • well-informed,
  • judicious,
  • brain,
  • calculating,
  • inward,
  • pedagogue,
  • discerning,
  • interior,
  • keen,
  • intellectual powers,
  • Illuminati,
  • buff,
  • ghostly,
  • subjective,
  • literate,
  • Academical,
  • planner,
  • highbrowed,
  • Discarnate,
  • conjectural,
  • man of letters,
  • Noological,
  • sightseer,
  • mind,
  • resident,
  • seasoned,
  • Non-sexual,
  • Superphysical,
  • subconscious,
  • metaphysical,
  • intelligentsia,
  • raciness,
  • asexual,
  • transcendental,
  • avant-garde,
  • serious,
  • noetic,
  • reason,
  • eavesdropper,
  • critical,
  • classifier,
  • sane,
  • philosophical,
  • luminary,
  • utopian,
  • deep,
  • penetrating,
  • ruminative,
  • thoughtful,
  • mentor,
  • Unpractical,
  • innate,
  • unrealistic,
  • Dispositional,
  • transcendent,
  • long-haired,
  • reflective,
  • cognitive,
  • fire,
  • force,
  • aesthete,
  • generalist,
  • characteristic,
  • scientist,
  • grad,
  • instinct,
  • Intellectuality,
  • loftiness,
  • meditative,
  • ability,
  • Bookman,
  • creative,
  • discursive,
  • internal,
  • mahatma,
  • idealized,
  • intellection,
  • braintruster,
  • illusionist,
  • man of science,
  • dexterous,
  • intellectualistic,
  • arranger,
  • parts,
  • contemplative,
  • high-ranking,
  • capacity,
  • quick,
  • rubberneck,
  • abstract,
  • cognoscenti,
  • piquance,
  • fraternal,
  • Metaphysic,
  • skilled,
  • power,
  • platonic,
  • vigor,
  • sensible,
  • well-read,
  • point,
  • verve,
  • Hyperphysical,
  • insightful,
  • leader,
  • cause,
  • warmth,
  • consciousness,
  • conception,
  • senses,
  • Suppositive,
  • subliminal,
  • detached,
  • piquancy,
  • ivory tower,
  • sober,
  • kahuna,
  • schooled,
  • aphorist,
  • Intellective,
  • bookish,
  • teacher,
  • overqualified,
  • antithesis,
  • intuition,
  • Faculties,
  • incorporeal,
  • perceptual,
  • strong language,
  • connoisseur,
  • starets,
  • suppositional,
  • learned person,
  • polymath,
  • inventive,
  • constitutional,
  • rabbi,
  • elevation,
  • supposititious,
  • pensive,
  • belletristic,
  • affective,
  • Brains,
  • aesthetic,
  • bibliophile,
  • longhair,
  • friendly,
  • pundit,
  • licentiate,
  • whiz,
  • emotional,
  • conceptual,
  • wise old man,
  • graduate,
  • gossip,
  • reasonable,
  • wizard,
  • comradely,
  • chaste,
  • psychic,
  • ideal,
  • inquirer,
  • brotherly,
  • thought-provoking,
  • strong-minded,
  • full-fledged,
  • wisdom,
  • intelligence,
  • elitist,
  • sapient,
  • Animastic,
  • middlebrow,
  • wits,
  • rationality,
  • cogitative,
  • boldness,
  • literati,
  • intellect,
  • trained,
  • spirit,
  • suppositious,
  • association of ideas,
  • Percipience,
  • skill,
  • phrenic,
  • clever dick,
  • seeker,
  • idealistic,
  • temperamental,
  • elder,
  • bookworm,
  • deductive,
  • old-timer,
  • Sententiousness,
  • ideational,
  • renaissance man,
  • occasion,
  • judgment,
  • neat,
  • apt,
  • theoretic,
  • news,
  • mastermind,
  • Rishi,
  • brahmin,
  • unapplied,
  • Psychologic,
  • spiritual,
  • analytical,
  • hypothetical,
  • elder statesman,
  • non-physical,
  • observation,
  • academician,
  • high-brow,
  • unconscious,
  • technologist,
  • wit,
  • theorist,
  • pedant,
  • sublimity,
  • superior,
  • lettered,
  • mental,
  • ratiocinative,
  • good,
  • specialist,
  • celibate,
  • psychical,
  • sharpie,
  • oracle,
  • newsmonger,
  • impractical,
  • psychogenic.

Antonyms for Intellectual:

• adj.

  • all
    nonintellectual.
  • very smart
    body, stupid, ignorant, foolish, physical, simple.
  • Other antonyms:
    clumsy, extracurricular, uncultured, unscholarly, unconscious, moronic, senseless, Thick-headed, noneducational, awkward, bungling, dull, anti-intellectual, idiotic, unenlightened, foolish, obtuse.

• n.

  • very smart person
    ignoramus, imbecile.

• Other antonyms:

  • n. t.
    blockhead, body, dolt, dumbbell, dummy, dunce, extracurricular, fathead, foolish, half-wit, idiotic, imbecile, material, moron, moronic, nitwit, pinhead, simpleton, unconscious, uncultured, unenlightened, unlearned, unscholarly, unintellectual, noneducational, idiot, stupid, cocurricular, noncollegiate, nonacademic, unacademic, dope, nonmental.