Entry Word: intellectual

Function: adjective

Meaning: 1 much given to learning and thinking <as the daughter of college professors, sheʼs used to being around intellectual people>

Synonyms cerebral, highbrow

Related Words cultivated, cultured; erudite, learned, literate, scholarly, well-read; academic, bookish, professorial; didactic, pedantic; high-hat, snobbish, snobby, snooty; educated, schooled; brainy, bright, brilliant, clever, intelligent, quick-witted, smart

Near Antonyms uncultivated, uncultured; ignorant, illiterate, uneducated, unlettered, unread; dumb, foolish, idiotic, moronic, slow, stupid, unintelligent

Antonyms lowbrow, nonintellectual

2 of or relating to the mind <intellectual pursuits such as reading and studying> — see mental 1