intellectual – English adjective declension

English adjective forms of intellectual

Adjective: intellectual

Comparison Forms

Synthetic

Perifrastic

Comparativemore intellectual
Superlativemost intellectual

Sample Sentences

  • intellectual powers, activities, etc.
  • 1920, Harold Monro, Preface to The year's at the spring; an anthology of recent poetry
  • Pleasure is various, but it cannot exist where the emotions or the imagination have not been powerfully stirred. Whether it be called sensual or intellectual, pleasure cannot be willed
  • Indeed, this discovery of meaning in symbols may be the most astounding intellectual feat that any human being ever performs—and most humans perform it before they are seven years old! [1972, Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren, How to Read a Book, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 25:]
  • an intellectual person
  • The Fenimore Cooper Indian is no doubt a brave and highly intellectual person, educated abroad, refined and cultivated by foreign travel, graceful in the grub dance or scalp walk-around, yet tender-hearted as a girl, walking by night fifty-seven miles in a single evening to warn his white friends of danger. [1894, Edgar Wilson Nye, “Chapter 30”, in Nye's History of the USA:]
  • intellectual employments
  • A good deal of nonsense is written about sport and entertainment. Many of us can, with pleasant ease, suspend a severely intellectual task for a few hours to witness a first-class football match. [1916, Joseph McCabe, “Chapter IX”, in The Tyranny of Shams:]
  • intellectual philosophy, sometimes called "mental" philosophy
  • I deem not profitless those fleeting moods / Of shadowy exultation; not for this, / That they are kindred to our purer mind / And intellectual life […] [1805, William Wordsworth, The Prelude, Book II, lines 331-334 (eds. Jonathan Wordsworth, M. H. Abrams, & Stephen Gill, published by W. W. Norton & Company, 1979)]

Etymology

From Old French intellectuel, from Latin intellectualis.

Verbs referencing "intellectual"

French Adjectives intellectuel, Finnish Adjectives intellektuaalinen.