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How to pronounce intellectual in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms noetic, rational


intellectual problems.
Type Words
Synonyms cerebral
Derivation intellect
Type Words
Synonyms intellect
Type of soul, individual, someone, mortal, person, somebody
Has types brainiac, clever clogs, clever dick, creative thinker, decipherer, decoder, doubter, egghead, einstein, exponent, alchemist, expounder, genius, highbrow, idealogue, illusionist, mastermind, mentor, mind, sceptic, scholar, scholarly person, seer, skeptic, expositor, anomalist, aphorist, bel esprit, bookman, brain, subjectivist, synthesiser, synthesist, synthesizer, theoretician, theoriser, theorist, theorizer, thinker, visionary, wise man, wonderer, specifier, student
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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.

Examples of intellectual

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Victoria Espinel, the White House intellectual property enforcement coordinator.
From the bloomberg.com
They have similar ethical beliefs about the importance of intellectual property.
From the freep.com
The final intellectual-capital score accounts for 10% of a school's final grade.
From the businessweek.com
Unless you build a community you don't have a thriving intellectual environment.
From the businessweek.com
Patents and other intellectual property are often today's most lucrative assets.
From the businessweek.com
The other is the lack of recourse when it comes to intellectual-property issues.
From the businessweek.com
Blair seemed intimidated by Brown's intellectual stature and grassroots backing.
From the kansas.com
Those seductive blobs of color could end up on the same intellectual scrap heap.
From the washingtonpost.com
Marc, 47, is one of the most interesting and intellectual men I have ever known.
From the time.com
More examples
  • A person who uses the mind creatively
  • Of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind; "intellectual problems"; "the triumph of the rational over the animal side of man"
  • 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"
  • Cerebral: involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct; "a cerebral approach to the problem"; "cerebral drama"
  • An intellectual is a person who uses intelligence (thought and reason) and critical or analytical reasoning in either a professional or a personal capacity.
  • (Intellectually) Intelligence is an umbrella term describing a property of the mind including related abilities, such as the capacities for abstract thought, understanding, communication, reasoning, learning, learning from past experiences, planning, and problem solving.
  • (Intellectually) Transcendentalism is a form of mystic thought rooted in Western traditions like Neo-Platonism or Swedenborgianism. Its elevated, all-embracing perspective resolves the conflicting phenomena of the material world to a spiritual direction or meaning.
  • (Intellectuals) Differentia: Involved in complex, abstract reasoning
  • N (cultured and educated person) klerulo, (intellectual person) intelektulo