English > intellectual: 4 senses > noun 1, person | Meaning | A person who uses the mind creatively. |
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| Synonym | intellect |
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| Narrower | alchemist | One who was versed in the practice of alchemy and who sought an elixir of life and a panacea and an alkahest and the philosopher's stone |
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| anomalist | someone who has a special interest in exceptional cases |
| aphorist | someone who formulates aphorisms or who repeats aphorisms |
| bel esprit | A witty or clever person with a fine mind / mind |
| clever Dick, clever clogs | An intellectual who is ostentatiously and irritatingly knowledgeable |
| decoder, decipherer | The kind of intellectual who converts messages from a code to plain text |
| egghead | An intellectual |
| exponent | someone who expounds / expounds and interprets or explains |
| expositor, expounder | A person who explains |
| genius, mastermind, brain, brainiac, Einstein | someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality |
| highbrow | A person of intellectual or erudite tastes |
| mentor, wise man | A wise / wise and trusted guide and advisor |
| scholar, scholarly person, bookman, student | A learned person (especially in the humanities) |
| skeptic, sceptic, doubter | someone who habitually doubts accepted beliefs |
| specifier | someone who draws up specifications giving details (as for obtaining a patent / patent) |
| subjectivist | A person who subscribes to subjectivism |
| synthesist, synthesizer, synthesiser | An intellectual who synthesizes or uses synthetic methods |
| theorist, theoretician, theorizer, theoriser, idealogue | someone who theorizes / theorizes (especially in science or art) |
| thinker, creative thinker, mind | An important intellectual |
| thinker | someone who exercises the mind / mind (usually in an effort to reach a decision) |
| visionary, illusionist, seer | A person with unusual powers of foresight |
| wonderer | someone who is curious about something |
| Broader | person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul | A human being |
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| Spanish | intelectual |
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| Catalan | intel·lectual |
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