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say it: in-tuh-LEK-choo-uhl
intellectual is an adjective and noun meaning "of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind". It carries 4 recorded senses.
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”
involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct
“a cerebral approach to the problem”
“cerebral drama”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for intellectual come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.