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Definition of intellectual in English: intellectualadjective ˌɪntəˈlɛktʃʊəlˌɪn(t)əˈlɛk(t)ʃ(u)əl 1Relating to the intellect. 智力的,才智的 children need intellectual stimulation 儿童需要激发智力。 Example sentencesExamples - So farmers are aware that the animals that they are keeping have a significant intellectual ability.
- Children affected with cerebral palsy generally have basic intellectual ability.
- This clearly represents the limit of her intellectual abilities.
- There is no question that she has the intellectual ability to succeed in whatever program she chooses.
- This global health focus offered academics intellectual stimulation and prestige.
- It is great having the planning time and the intellectual stimulation of adults and colleagues.
- It builds up both the physical and intellectual abilities of those practising it.
- Steele stressed that the task did not measure a person's level of intellectual ability.
- We have got to probe her intellectual ability to deal with these issues.
- A rare breed in comedy - intellectual rigour and the ability to crack hilarious jokes.
- She was a lady of generosity, love and friendship and of great intellectual ability and laity.
- I fear I failed to provide the requisite intellectual stimulation and he moved on.
- Your intellectual ability is tempered with sympathetic feelings.
- She explained these as exercise, nourishment and intellectual stimulation.
- In his own time he also visited other blogs, to pinch ideas for intellectual stimulation, and to attract return visitors.
- There were contests that tested the intellectual abilities of students.
- In some cases the mother may also be limited in terms of intellectual ability and emotional capacity.
- Looking back I think it's obvious they felt threatened and felt a need to denigrate my intellectual ability.
- Such was his intellectual ability that he was able to skip lectures to go climbing yet still graduate with flying colours.
- Any more, and the stimulation of intellectual life will magnify the bonds of social life.
Synonyms mental, cerebral, cognitive rational, psychological, abstract, conceptual, theoretical, analytical, logical academic rare mindly, phrenic, ratiocinative - 1.1 Appealing to or requiring use of the intellect.
智力的,才智的 the film wasn't very intellectual, but it caught the mood of the times 这部电影并不特别有智性,但它却抓住了时代的情绪。 Example sentencesExamples - There isn't the vibrant intellectual culture that is needed to support a good arts scene.
- All of those things require a degree of intellectual effort.
- The Renaissance in Europe was a remarkable period of artistic, cultural, and intellectual activity.
- Finally, a fabulous essay that requires more intellectual energy to understand than I have today.
- To flourish, to make a success of life, requires engagement in intellectual pursuits.
- This requires hard work, intellectual effort, and the maturity to live with differing points of view.
- Feminism has to stop being seen purely as an intellectual pursuit for the educated elite and has to start being about real women and real lives.
- But, in the end, it is a production in which raw passion is always subservient to intellectual cleverness.
- The failure of love punctuates much of the intellectual cleverness of Farrell's works.
- In its ambition, its intellectual vigour and its knowledge, it more than justifies its place on any bookshelf.
- These pursuits require mental acuteness, intellectual agility and detailed analysis.
- I can see the intellectual appeal of it as an exploration of endurance, but three things get in the way of full appreciation.
- To say more would require something of an intellectual or stylistic mandate which Lanchester conspicuously does not have.
- The level of knowledge, enthusiasm and intellectual curiosity was truly inspiring.
- Perhaps all that stands in the balance here is a highbrow intellectual debate.
- Once again, however, despite its intellectual appeal, this scenario still has a number of problems.
- That's probably the most intellectual letter we've had for a while.
- 1.2 Possessing a highly developed intellect.
高智力的,高智商的 you are an intellectual girl, like your mother 你和你母亲一样,是一个非常聪明的女孩。 Example sentencesExamples - If Turkey really wants to be European, an intellectual elite that can make itself heard will have to develop.
Synonyms intelligent, clever, academic, well educated, well read, widely read, erudite, cerebral, learned, knowledgeable, literary, bookish, donnish, highbrow, scholarly, studious, cultured, cultivated, civilized, enlightened, sophisticated informal brainy, genius archaic lettered, clerkly
noun ˌɪntəˈlɛktʃʊəlˌɪn(t)əˈlɛk(t)ʃ(u)əl A person possessing a highly developed intellect. 高智力的,高智商的 a prominent political thinker and intellectual Example sentencesExamples - This offered a platform for a large number of intellectuals and thinkers urging enlightened progress.
- It was written by a group of Arab intellectuals and experts with known concern for the Arab world.
- For the most part, the intellectuals were projecting their own sordid chauvinism on to the working class.
- I don't think by any means it's something to be done by star intellectuals or people from the top.
- Recently, a group of Iranian intellectuals also reacted to the issue and signed a petition.
- It's largely down to him that even quite foolish Frenchmen harbour the belief that they are intellectuals.
- Optimism of the will is all very well for imprisoned intellectuals, but Scotland could do with a little realism.
- It has to do with the intelligence of our opponents, the warmongering intellectuals.
- At the same time, a growing professionalism reduced the role of intellectuals as public sages.
- Academics are interested in ideas, whereas intellectuals seek to bring ideas to an entire culture.
- What Leftist intellectuals and agitators say is not what ordinary Leftists say.
- The intellectuals were persecuted for 40 years and now they are marginalised.
- Are intellectuals and scholars always expected to find faults of their own people?
- Yet there is an important distinction between government by the intelligent and by intellectuals.
- The book is in essence the life story of a mild-mannered and cultured intellectual living under communism.
- They get the latest books, we get to understand the latest thinking of these intellectuals.
- Yet still our poverty activists and intellectuals insist that poverty is getting worse.
- On my first trip to the pub I am reminded how half a dozen pints can reduce dazzling intellectuals to burbling halfwits.
- The intellectuals could not prevent the masses from learning to read.
- The bottom line is that she believes in a secular government and she is backed and advised by a group of secular intellectuals.
Synonyms intelligent person, learned person, highbrow, academic, bookworm, bookish person, man of letters, woman of letters, bluestocking, thinker, brain, scholar, sage genius, Einstein, polymath, expert, prodigy, gifted child mastermind Hindu pandit informal egghead, brains, bright spark, whizz, wizard, walking encyclopedia British informal brainbox, clever clogs, boffin North American informal brainiac, rocket scientist, maven, Brahmin, pointy-head archaic bookman
OriginLate Middle English: from Latin intellectualis, from intellectus 'understanding', from intellegere 'understand' (see intelligent). Definition of intellectual in US English: intellectualadjectiveˌɪn(t)əˈlɛk(t)ʃ(u)əlˌin(t)əˈlek(t)SH(o͞o)əl 1Relating to the intellect. 智力的,才智的 children need intellectual stimulation 儿童需要激发智力。 Example sentencesExamples - Such was his intellectual ability that he was able to skip lectures to go climbing yet still graduate with flying colours.
- A rare breed in comedy - intellectual rigour and the ability to crack hilarious jokes.
- There is no question that she has the intellectual ability to succeed in whatever program she chooses.
- Looking back I think it's obvious they felt threatened and felt a need to denigrate my intellectual ability.
- She was a lady of generosity, love and friendship and of great intellectual ability and laity.
- This clearly represents the limit of her intellectual abilities.
- It builds up both the physical and intellectual abilities of those practising it.
- We have got to probe her intellectual ability to deal with these issues.
- Your intellectual ability is tempered with sympathetic feelings.
- She explained these as exercise, nourishment and intellectual stimulation.
- This global health focus offered academics intellectual stimulation and prestige.
- Steele stressed that the task did not measure a person's level of intellectual ability.
- In some cases the mother may also be limited in terms of intellectual ability and emotional capacity.
- It is great having the planning time and the intellectual stimulation of adults and colleagues.
- So farmers are aware that the animals that they are keeping have a significant intellectual ability.
- Any more, and the stimulation of intellectual life will magnify the bonds of social life.
- Children affected with cerebral palsy generally have basic intellectual ability.
- There were contests that tested the intellectual abilities of students.
- I fear I failed to provide the requisite intellectual stimulation and he moved on.
- In his own time he also visited other blogs, to pinch ideas for intellectual stimulation, and to attract return visitors.
Synonyms mental, cerebral, cognitive - 1.1 Appealing to or requiring use of the intellect.
智力的,才智的 the movie wasn't very intellectual, but it caught the mood of the times 这部电影并不特别有智性,但它却抓住了时代的情绪。 Example sentencesExamples - Finally, a fabulous essay that requires more intellectual energy to understand than I have today.
- The failure of love punctuates much of the intellectual cleverness of Farrell's works.
- These pursuits require mental acuteness, intellectual agility and detailed analysis.
- All of those things require a degree of intellectual effort.
- But, in the end, it is a production in which raw passion is always subservient to intellectual cleverness.
- Feminism has to stop being seen purely as an intellectual pursuit for the educated elite and has to start being about real women and real lives.
- That's probably the most intellectual letter we've had for a while.
- There isn't the vibrant intellectual culture that is needed to support a good arts scene.
- To say more would require something of an intellectual or stylistic mandate which Lanchester conspicuously does not have.
- In its ambition, its intellectual vigour and its knowledge, it more than justifies its place on any bookshelf.
- Once again, however, despite its intellectual appeal, this scenario still has a number of problems.
- This requires hard work, intellectual effort, and the maturity to live with differing points of view.
- The Renaissance in Europe was a remarkable period of artistic, cultural, and intellectual activity.
- To flourish, to make a success of life, requires engagement in intellectual pursuits.
- Perhaps all that stands in the balance here is a highbrow intellectual debate.
- I can see the intellectual appeal of it as an exploration of endurance, but three things get in the way of full appreciation.
- The level of knowledge, enthusiasm and intellectual curiosity was truly inspiring.
- 1.2 Possessing a highly developed intellect.
高智力的,高智商的 you are an intellectual girl, like your mother 你和你母亲一样,是一个非常聪明的女孩。 Example sentencesExamples - If Turkey really wants to be European, an intellectual elite that can make itself heard will have to develop.
Synonyms intelligent, clever, academic, well educated, well read, widely read, erudite, cerebral, learned, knowledgeable, literary, bookish, donnish, highbrow, scholarly, studious, cultured, cultivated, civilized, enlightened, sophisticated
nounˌɪn(t)əˈlɛk(t)ʃ(u)əlˌin(t)əˈlek(t)SH(o͞o)əl A person possessing a highly developed intellect. 高智力的,高智商的 Example sentencesExamples - It was written by a group of Arab intellectuals and experts with known concern for the Arab world.
- Recently, a group of Iranian intellectuals also reacted to the issue and signed a petition.
- At the same time, a growing professionalism reduced the role of intellectuals as public sages.
- What Leftist intellectuals and agitators say is not what ordinary Leftists say.
- The book is in essence the life story of a mild-mannered and cultured intellectual living under communism.
- For the most part, the intellectuals were projecting their own sordid chauvinism on to the working class.
- This offered a platform for a large number of intellectuals and thinkers urging enlightened progress.
- It has to do with the intelligence of our opponents, the warmongering intellectuals.
- It's largely down to him that even quite foolish Frenchmen harbour the belief that they are intellectuals.
- They get the latest books, we get to understand the latest thinking of these intellectuals.
- I don't think by any means it's something to be done by star intellectuals or people from the top.
- The intellectuals could not prevent the masses from learning to read.
- Yet still our poverty activists and intellectuals insist that poverty is getting worse.
- Academics are interested in ideas, whereas intellectuals seek to bring ideas to an entire culture.
- Yet there is an important distinction between government by the intelligent and by intellectuals.
- Optimism of the will is all very well for imprisoned intellectuals, but Scotland could do with a little realism.
- On my first trip to the pub I am reminded how half a dozen pints can reduce dazzling intellectuals to burbling halfwits.
- The intellectuals were persecuted for 40 years and now they are marginalised.
- The bottom line is that she believes in a secular government and she is backed and advised by a group of secular intellectuals.
- Are intellectuals and scholars always expected to find faults of their own people?
Synonyms intelligent person, learned person, highbrow, academic, bookworm, bookish person, man of letters, woman of letters, bluestocking, thinker, brain, scholar, sage
OriginLate Middle English: from Latin intellectualis, from intellectus ‘understanding’, from intellegere ‘understand’ (see intelligent). |