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Adjective intellectual has 4 senses

intellectual - of or relating to the intellect; "his intellectual career"
intellectual, rational, noetic - of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind; "intellectual problems"; "the triumph of the rational over the animal side of man"
Antonym: physical (indirect, via mental)
intellectual - 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"
Antonyms: nonintellectual, anti-intellectual, philistine, lowbrow, lowbrowed, uncultivated, mindless
cerebral, intellectual - involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct; "a cerebral approach to the problem"; "cerebral drama"

Noun intellectual has 1 sense

intellectual, intellect - a person who uses the mind creatively
--₁ is a kind of person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, human, soul
--₁ has particulars: