intellectual

Adjective

• involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct
  • a cerebral approach to the problem
    
  • cerebral drama
    

• 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
    

• of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind
  • intellectual problems
    
  • the triumph of the rational over the animal side of man
    

Noun

• a person who uses the mind creatively

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  cerebral , rational , noetic , intellect
• Antonyms: 
  emotional , nonintellectual