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| Main Entry: | intellectual |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very smart |
| Synonyms: | bookish, brainy*, cerebral, creative, highbrow*, intelligent, inventive, learned, mental, psychological, rational, scholarly, studious, subjective, thoughtful, highbrowed, intellective, phrenic |
| Antonyms: | foolish, ignorant, simple, stupid |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | intellectual |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | very smart person |
| Synonyms: | academic, avant-garde, brain*, doctor, egghead*, genius, highbrow*, philosopher, pundit, sage, scholar, thinker, whiz*, wizard, Einstein, academician, braintruster, intelligentsia |
| Antonyms: | ignoramus |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | abstract |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | conceptual, theoretical |
| Synonyms: | abstruse, complex, deep, hypothetical, ideal, indefinite, intellectual, philosophical, recondite, transcendent, transcendental, unreal, nonconcrete |
| Antonyms: | actual, concrete, factual, material, objective, physical, real |
| Main Entry: | brainy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | intelligent |
| Synonyms: | bright, brilliant, clever, intellectual, sapient, smart |
| Main Entry: | cerebral |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | using one's brain |
| Synonyms: | analytical, brainy, deep, erudite, intellectual, intelligent, recondite, scholarly, smart |
| Main Entry: | cultured |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | well-bred, experienced |
| Synonyms: | able, accomplished, advanced, aesthetic, appreciative, au courant, chivalrous, civilized, courteous, educated, elegant, enlightened, erudite, gallant, genteel, high-class, highbrow*, informed, intellectual, intelligent, knowledgeable, lettered, liberal, literary, literate, mannerly, polished, polite, refined, savant, scholarly, sensitive, sophisticated, tasteful, tolerant, traveled, understanding, up-to-date, urbane, versed, well-informed, blue-stocking, cultivated, distingue |
| Notes: | cultured refers to people and pearls; cultivated refers to mind, tastes, speech, or behavior |
| Antonyms: | ignorant, inexperienced, stupid, unsophisticated |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | exalted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | praised; held in high esteem |
| Synonyms: | astral, august, dignified, elevated, eminent, exaggerated, excessive, first, grand, high, high-minded, highest, honorable, honored, ideal, illustrious, immodest, imposing, inflated, intellectual, leading, lofty, magnificent, noble, number one, outstanding, overblown, pompous, prestigious, pretentious, proud, self-important, sublime, superb, superior, top-drawer, uplifting, high-ranking, highest-ranking, top-ranking |
| Antonyms: | debased, humiliated, condemned, criticized, denounced |
| Main Entry: | intellect |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | capability of the mind; someone with capable mind |
| Synonyms: | ability, acumen, comprehension, egghead*, genius, intellectual, intelligence, intuition, judgment, mentality, mind, psyche, pundit, reason, savvy, sense, smarts, thinker, understanding, brains, cerebration, intellectuality, what it takes, wits |
| Antonyms: | ignorance |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | know-it-all |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | one who claims full knowledge |
| Synonyms: | braggart, brain*, brain, intellectual, smart aleck, smart aleck, windbag, wise guy*, smart-ass, smarty-pants, walking encyclopedia, wiseacre |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | learned |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | well-informed |
| Synonyms: | abstruse, academic, accomplished, bookish, brainy*, conversant, cultured, deep*, educated, erudite, esoteric, experienced, expert, grave, highbrow*, intellectual, judicious, lettered, literary, literate, omniscient, pedantic, philosophical, recondite, sage, sapient, scholarly, scientific, sharp, skilled, solemn, solid, sound, studied, studious, versed, well-grounded, well-read, well-rounded, cultivated, grounded, in the know, pansophic, philosophic, polymath, posted, professorial, well-educated |
| Antonyms: | ignorant, stupid, uninformed |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | metaphysical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not physical; without physical presence |
| Synonyms: | abstract, abstruse, deep, difficult, esoteric, eternal, fundamental, high-flown, ideal, immaterial, impalpable, incorporeal, insubstantial, intangible, intellectual, mystical, philosophical, preternatural, profound, recondite, spiritual, superhuman, superior, supernatural, theoretical, transcendental, unearthly, universal, unreal, unsubstantial, bodiless, discarnate, jesuitic, nonmaterial, nonphysical, numinous, oversubtle, supermundane, suprahuman, supramundane, supranatural, unfleshly, unphysical |
| Antonyms: | concrete, material, objective, physical, real, solid, substantial |
| Main Entry: | platonic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | expressing nonphysical love |
| Synonyms: | Utopian, ideal, idealistic, intellectual, quixotic, spiritual, transcendent, visionary |
| Antonyms: | physical |
| Main Entry: | psychic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | extrasensory in perception |
| Synonyms: | cerebral, clairvoyant, immaterial, impressible, impressionable, intellectual, mental, metaphysical, mystic, occult, preternatural, psychological, responsive, sensible, sensitive, sentient, spiritual, supernatural, susceptible, unworldly, analytic, intellective, psychal, psychical, psychogenic, sensile, supersensible, supersensitive, supersensory, supersensual, susceptive, telekinetic, telepathic, transmundane |
| Main Entry: | psychological |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | concerning the mind |
| Synonyms: | cerebral, emotional, experimental, imaginary, intellectual, mental, subconscious, subjective, unconscious, cognitive, in the mind, intellective, psychical |
| Antonyms: | body, physical |
| Main Entry: | pundit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is authority |
| Synonyms: | auger, bookworm, brain*, buff, egghead*, expert, intellectual, philosopher, professor, savant, scholar, teacher, thinker, cereb, cognoscenti, learned one, solon |
| Antonyms: | amateur |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rational |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | realistic; of sound mind |
| Synonyms: | analytical, balanced, calm, cerebral, circumspect, collected, cool*, deliberate, discerning, discriminating, enlightened, far-sighted, impartial, intellectual, intelligent, judicious, knowing, levelheaded, logical, lucid, normal, objective, perspicacious, prudent, reasonable, reasoning, reflective, sagacious, sane, sensible, sober, sound, stable, synthetic, thinking, thoughtful, together, well-advised, wise, all there, cognitive, deductive, philosophic, ratiocinative |
| Antonyms: | irrational, ridiculous, unrealistic, unreasonable, unsound |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wise person |
| Synonyms: | guide, guru, intellect, intellectual, learned person, master, mentor, philosopher, pundit, savant, teacher, thinker, mahatma, wise man/woman |
| Main Entry: | savant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | scholar |
| Synonyms: | academic, bookworm, brain*, egghead*, expert, intellect, intellectual, learned person, learner, master, philosopher, pundit, sage, wise person |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | scholar |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is very involved in education and learning |
| Synonyms: | academic, augur, bookworm*, brain*, critic, disciple, doctor, egghead*, gnome*, grind*, intellectual, learned person, learner, philosopher, professor, pupil, sage, savant, scientist, student, teacher, tool, bookish person, litterateur, person of letters, schoolchild, wise person |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | scholarly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | academic |
| Synonyms: | bookish, cultured, educated, erudite, intellectual, learned, lettered, literate, scholastic, studious, taught, trained, well-read, longhair, schooled |
| Antonyms: | uneducated, unscholarly |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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