intellectual

名词 n. 形容词 adj.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An intelligent, learned person, especially one who discourses about learned matters.
    — It should be noted that there is now no intelligentsia that is not in some sense "Left". Perhaps the last right-wing intellectual was T. E. Lawrence. Since about 1930 everyone describable as an “intellectual” has lived in a state of chronic discontent with the existing order.
  2. The intellect or understanding; mental powers or faculties. archaic
    — […] although their intellectuals had not failed in the theory of truth, yet did the inservient and brutall faculties control the suggestion of reason […]
形容词 adj.
  1. Pertaining to, or performed by, the intellect; mental or cognitive.
    — intellectual powers, activities, etc.
  2. Endowed with intellect; having a keen sense of understanding; having the capacity for higher forms of knowledge or thought; characterized by intelligence or cleverness
    — an intellectual person
  3. Suitable for exercising one's intellect; perceived by the intellect
    — intellectual employments
  4. Relating to the understanding; treating of the mind.
    — intellectual philosophy, sometimes called "mental" philosophy
  5. Spiritual. archaic,poetic
    — I deem not profitless those fleeting moods / Of shadowy exultation; not for this, / That they are kindred to our purer mind / And intellectual life […]

词形变化

more intellectual comparative most intellectual superlative intellectuall alternative intellectuals plural intellectuall alternative

词源

词源 1
From Old French intellectuel, from Latin intellectualis.
词源 2
From Old French intellectuel, from Latin intellectualis.
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