intellectual

n. அறிவுத்திறனுடையவர், ஆய்வறிவாளர், அறிஞர், (பெயரடை) அறிவுத்திறம்வாய்ந்த, அறிவாற்றலுள்ள, அறிவாற்றல் சார்ந்த, ஆய்வுணர்வுக்குரிய, அறிவுக்குகந்த, அறிவுத்திறநோக்கிய.

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In`tel*lec"tu*al, a. Etym: [L. intellectualis: cf. F. intellectuel.] 1. 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. I. Watts. 2. 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 Milton. 3. Suitable for exercising the intellect; formed by, and existing for, the intellect alone; perceived by the intellect; as, intellectual employments. 4. Relating to the understanding; treating of the mind; as, intellectual philosophy, sometimes called "mental" philosophy. In`tel*lec"tu*al, n. Defn: The intellect or understanding; mental powers or faculties. Her husband, for I view far round, not nigh, Whose higher intellectual more I shun. Milton. I kept her intellectuals in a state of exercise. De Quincey.