English-Polish translations for intellectual

• intelektualista
  Amadou Hampâté Bâ, intelektualista z Mali powiedział: "W Afryce, kiedy umiera stary człowiek, wraz z nim pali się cała biblioteka”. Amadou Hampâté Bâ, a Malian intellectual, said: 'In Africa, when an old person dies, it is a library that burns'.
• intelektualny
  To także, lub przede wszystkim, intelektualny, kulturowy i socjalny wymiar Europy. It is also, or even primarily, the intellectual, cultural and social dimension of Europe.
  Antyzachodni bzik intelektualny lewicy załamał się wraz z upadkiem komunizmu. The anti-Western intellectual cranks of the Left suffered a collective breakdown when Communism collapsed.

Definition of intellectual

• Belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental or cognitive
• Endowed with intellect; having the power of understanding; having capacity for the higher forms of knowledge or thought; characterized by intelligence or mental capacity
• Suitable for exercising the intellect; formed by, and existing for, the intellect alone; perceived by the intellect
• Relating to the understanding; treating of the mind
• Spiritual
• An intelligent, learned person, especially one who discourses about learned matters
• The intellect or understanding; mental powers or faculties

Examples

• intellectual powers, activities, etc.
• an intellectual person
• intellectual employments
• intellectual philosophy, sometimes called "mental" philosophy

Related words

• intellectually
• intellectualistic
• intellectualism
• intellectualist
• pseudointellectual
• intellectualize
• anti-intellectual
• overintellectualize
• anti-intellectualism