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Intellectual vs. Intelligent — What's the Difference?

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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