Meaning of intellectual

(adj) of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind; "intellectual problems"; "the triumph of the rational over the animal side of man"

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"

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

(noun) a person who uses the mind creatively