Intellectual vs. Intelligent — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Intellectual and Intelligent
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Intellectual
An intellectual is a person who engages in critical thinking, research, and reflection to advance discussions of academic subjects. This often involves publishing work for consumption by the general public that adds depth to issues that affect society.
Intelligent
Having or showing intelligence, especially of a high level
An intelligent guess
Anna is intelligent and hard-working
Intellectual
Relating to the intellect
Children need intellectual stimulation
Intelligent
Having intelligence
Is there intelligent life elsewhere in the galaxy?.
Intellectual
A person possessing a highly developed intellect
A prominent political thinker and intellectual
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Intelligent
Having a high degree of intelligence; mentally acute
An intelligent student.
Intellectual
Of or relating to the intellect.
Intelligent
Showing sound judgment and rationality
An intelligent decision.
An intelligent solution to the problem.
Intellectual
Rational rather than emotional
An intellectual decision.
Intelligent
Appealing to the intellect; intellectual
A film with witty and intelligent dialogue.
Intellectual
Appealing to or engaging the intellect
An intellectual book.
An intellectual problem.
Intelligent
Of high or especially quick cognitive capacity, bright.
Intellectual
Having or showing intellect, especially to a high degree.
Intelligent
Well thought-out, well considered.
The engineer had a very intelligent design proposal for the new car.
The general devised an intelligent strategy for the southern campaign.
Intellectual
Given to activities or pursuits that require exercise of the intellect.
Intelligent
Characterized by thoughtful interaction.
My girlfriend and I had an intelligent conversation.
Intellectual
An intellectual person.
Intelligent
Having at least a similar level of brain power to humankind.
The hunt for intelligent life.
Intellectual
Pertaining to, or performed by, the intellect; mental or cognitive.
Intellectual powers, activities, etc.
Intelligent
Having an environment-sensing automatically-invoked built-in computer capability.
An intelligent network or keyboard
Intellectual
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
Intelligent
Endowed with the faculty of understanding or reason; as, man is an intelligent being.
Intellectual
Suitable for exercising one's intellect; perceived by the intellect
Intellectual employments
Intelligent
Possessed of a high level of intelligence, education, or judgment; knowing; sensible; skilled; exhibiting high intelligence; as, an intelligent young man; an intelligent architect; an intelligent answer.
Intellectual
Relating to the understanding; treating of the mind.
Intellectual philosophy, sometimes called "mental" philosophy
Intelligent
Cognizant; aware; communicative.
Intelligent of seasons.
Which are to France the spies and speculationsIntelligent of our state.
Intellectual
Spiritual.
Intelligent
Having the capacity for thought and reason especially to a high degree;
Is there intelligent life in the universe?
An intelligent question
Intellectual
An intelligent, learned person, especially one who discourses about learned matters.
Intelligent
Possessing sound knowledge;
Well-informed readers
Intellectual
(archaic) The intellect or understanding; mental powers or faculties.
Intelligent
Exercising or showing good judgment;
Healthy scepticism
A healthy fear of rattlesnakes
The healthy attitude of French laws
Healthy relations between labor and management
An intelligent solution
A sound approach to the problem
Sound advice
No sound explanation for his decision
Intellectual
Belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental; as, intellectual powers, activities, etc.
Logic is to teach us the right use of our reason or intellectual powers.
Intelligent
Endowed with the capacity to reason
Intellectual
Endowed with intellect; having the power of understanding; having capacity for the higher forms of knowledge or thought; characterized by intelligence or mental capacity; as, an intellectual person.
Who would lose,Though full of pain, this intellectual being,Those thoughts that wander through eternity?
Intellectual
Suitable for exercising the intellect; formed by, and existing for, the intellect alone; perceived by the intellect; as, intellectual employments.
Intellectual
Relating to the understanding; treating of the mind; as, intellectual philosophy, sometimes called "mental" philosophy.
Intellectual
The intellect or understanding; mental powers or faculties.
Her husband, for I view far round, not nigh,Whose higher intellectual more I shun.
I kept her intellectuals in a state of exercise.
Intellectual
A learned person or one of high intelligence;
Intellectual
A person who uses the mind creatively
Intellectual
Of or relating to the intellect;
His intellectual career
Intellectual
Of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind;
Intellectual problems
The triumph of the rational over the animal side of man
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
Intellectual
Involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct;
A cerebral approach to the problem
Cerebral drama
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