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Intellectual

Belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental; as, intellectual powers, activities, etc.

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Similar meaning 12

Good 84% connected

Possessing desirable qualities; adapted to answer the end designed; promoting success, welfare, or happiness; serviceable; useful; fit; excellent; ad…

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Good 84% connected

Possessing desirable qualities; adapted to answer the end designed; promoting success, welfare, or happiness; serviceable; useful; fit; excellent; ad…

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Mental 84% connected

Of or pertaining to the chin; genian; as, the mental nerve; the mental region.

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Mental 84% connected

Of or pertaining to the chin; genian; as, the mental nerve; the mental region.

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Rational 84% connected

Relating to the reason; not physical; mental.

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Rational 84% connected

Relating to the reason; not physical; mental.

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Reflective 84% connected

Throwing back images; as, a reflective mirror.

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Reflective 84% connected

Throwing back images; as, a reflective mirror.

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Serious 84% connected

Grave in manner or disposition; earnest; thoughtful; solemn; not light, gay, or volatile.

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Serious 84% connected

Grave in manner or disposition; earnest; thoughtful; solemn; not light, gay, or volatile.

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Sophisticated 84% connected

of Sophisticate

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Sophisticated 84% connected

of Sophisticate

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Broader term 3

Actor 76% connected

One who acts, or takes part in any affair; a doer.

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Doer 76% connected

One who does; one performs or executes; one who is wont and ready to act; an actor; an agent.

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Worker 76% connected

One who, or that which, works; a laborer; a performer; as, a worker in brass.

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Narrower term 25

Alchemist 76% connected

One who practices alchemy.

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Aphorist 76% connected

A writer or utterer of aphorisms.

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Brain 76% connected

The whitish mass of soft matter (the center of the nervous system, and the seat of consciousness and volition) which is inclosed in the cartilaginous…

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Decipherer 76% connected

One who deciphers.

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Doubter 76% connected

One who doubts; one whose opinion is unsettled; one who scruples.

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Exponent 76% connected

A number, letter, or any quantity written on the right hand of and above another quantity, and denoting how many times the latter is repeated as a fa…

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Expositor 76% connected

One who, or that which, expounds or explains; an expounder; a commentator.

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Expounder 76% connected

One who expounds or explains; an interpreter.

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Genius 76% connected

A good or evil spirit, or demon, supposed by the ancients to preside over a man's destiny in life; a tutelary deity; a supernatural being; a spirit,…

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Idealogue 76% connected

One given to fanciful ideas or theories; a theorist; a spectator.

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Illusionist 76% connected

One given to illusion; a visionary dreamer.

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Mentor 76% connected

A wise and faithful counselor or monitor.

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Mind 76% connected

The intellectual or rational faculty in man; the understanding; the intellect; the power that conceives, judges, or reasons; also, the entire spiritu…

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Sceptic 76% connected

Alt. of Scepticism

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Scholar 76% connected

One who attends a school; one who learns of a teacher; one under the tuition of a preceptor; a pupil; a disciple; a learner; a student.

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Seer 76% connected

Sore; painful.

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Skeptic 76% connected

One who is yet undecided as to what is true; one who is looking or inquiring for what is true; an inquirer after facts or reasons.

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Subjectivist 76% connected

One who holds to subjectivism; an egoist.

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Synthesist 76% connected

One who employs synthesis, or who follows synthetic methods.

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Theorist 76% connected

One who forms theories; one given to theory and speculation; a speculatist.

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Theorizer 76% connected

One who theorizes or speculates; a theorist.

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Thinker 76% connected

One who thinks; especially and chiefly, one who thinks in a particular manner; as, a close thinker; a deep thinker; a coherent thinker.

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Visionary 76% connected

Of or pertaining to a visions or visions; characterized by, appropriate to, or favorable for, visions.

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Wonder 76% connected

That emotion which is excited by novelty, or the presentation to the sight or mind of something new, unusual, strange, great, extraordinary, or not w…

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Wonderer 76% connected

One who wonders.

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Derivationally related 2

Mind 74% connected

The intellectual or rational faculty in man; the understanding; the intellect; the power that conceives, judges, or reasons; also, the entire spiritu…

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Mind 74% connected

The intellectual or rational faculty in man; the understanding; the intellect; the power that conceives, judges, or reasons; also, the entire spiritu…

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See also 6

Mental 66% connected

Of or pertaining to the chin; genian; as, the mental nerve; the mental region.

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Mental 66% connected

Of or pertaining to the chin; genian; as, the mental nerve; the mental region.

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Scholarly 66% connected

Like a scholar, or learned person; showing the qualities of a scholar; as, a scholarly essay or critique.

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Scholarly 66% connected

Like a scholar, or learned person; showing the qualities of a scholar; as, a scholarly essay or critique.

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Attribute 4

Intellect 66% connected

The part or faculty of the human soul by which it knows, as distinguished from the power to feel and to will; sometimes, the capacity for higher form…

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Intellect 66% connected

The part or faculty of the human soul by which it knows, as distinguished from the power to feel and to will; sometimes, the capacity for higher form…

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Mind 66% connected

The intellectual or rational faculty in man; the understanding; the intellect; the power that conceives, judges, or reasons; also, the entire spiritu…

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Mind 66% connected

The intellectual or rational faculty in man; the understanding; the intellect; the power that conceives, judges, or reasons; also, the entire spiritu…

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Synonym 4

Cerebral 92% connected

Of or pertaining to the cerebrum.

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Intellect 92% connected

The part or faculty of the human soul by which it knows, as distinguished from the power to feel and to will; sometimes, the capacity for higher form…

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Noetic 92% connected

Alt. of Noetical

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Rational 92% connected

Relating to the reason; not physical; mental.

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