INTELLECTUAL


Meaning of INTELLECTUAL in English

(~s)

Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.

1.

Intellectual means involving a person’s ability to think and to understand ideas and information.

High levels of lead could damage the ~ development of children...

ADJ: ADJ n

~ly

...~ly satisfying work...

ADV: usu ADV adj/-ed, ADV after v

2.

An ~ is someone who spends a lot of time studying and thinking about complicated ideas.

...teachers, artists and other ~s.

N-COUNT

Intellectual is also an adjective.

They were very ~ and witty.

ADJ

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