INTELLECTUAL Synonyms

• associated with academia or an academy

• an educator who works at a college or university

• hypothetical or theoretical and not expected to produce an immediate or practical result

• marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects

• having or marked by unusual and impressive intelligence

• showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others

• mentally quick and resourceful

• showing inventiveness and skill

• of or being or relating to or involving cognition

• possessing an education (especially having more than average knowledge)

• characterized by full comprehension of the problem involved

• an intellectual; a very studious and academic person

• having or showing profound knowledge

• someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality

• unusual mental ability

• someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field

• exceptional creative ability

• a natural talent

• highly educated; having extensive information or understanding

• alert and fully informed

• thoroughly acquainted through study or experience

• established by conditioning or learning

• having or showing profound knowledge

• highly educated; having extensive information or understanding

• able to read and write

• versed in literature; dealing with literature

• a person who can read and write

• knowledgeable and educated in one or several fields

• characteristic of scholars or scholarship

• showing mental alertness and calculation and resourcefulness

• a kind of pain such as that caused by a wound or a burn or a sore

• elegant and stylish

• characterized by quickness and ease in learning

• improperly forward or bold

• painfully severe

• quick and brisk

• capable of independent and apparently intelligent action

• be the source of pain

• marked by care and effort

• characterized by diligent study and fondness for reading

• a person of intellectual or erudite tastes

• highly cultured or educated

• knowledge and intellectual ability

• the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination

• a person who uses the mind creatively

• of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind

• consistent with or based on or using reason

• capable of being expressed as a quotient of integers

• an integer or a fraction

• of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind

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