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intellectual
An intelligent, learned person, especially one who discourses about learned matters.
Similar: highbrow
The intellect or understanding; mental powers or faculties.
Belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental or cognitive.
"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
"an intellectual person"
Suitable for exercising the intellect; formed by, and existing for, the intellect alone; perceived by the intellect
"intellectual employments"
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