intellectual

nouns

a person who uses the mind creatively

intellect, intellectual

adjectives

of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind

"intellectual problems"; "the triumph of the rational over the animal side of man"

intellectual, noetic, rational

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"

intellectual

antonym

nonintellectual

is similar to

highly cultured or educated

"highbrow events such as the ballet or opera"; "a highbrowed literary critic"

highbrow, highbrowed

is similar to

having its source in or being guided by the intellect (as distinguished from experience or emotion)

"a rational analysis"

rational

is similar to