intellectual in WordNet English dictionary

1. involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct
   "a cerebral approach to the problem"; "cerebral drama"
   cerebral  intellectual 
   
2. 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 
   
3. 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  rational  noetic 
   

1. a person who uses the mind creatively
   intellectual  intellect