different between intellectual vs intelligent

English

Alternative forms

• intellectuall (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old French intellectuel, from Latin intellectualis

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??nt??l?k(t)???l/

Adjective

intellectual (comparative more intellectual, superlative most intellectual)

1. Pertaining to, or performed by, the intellect; mental or cognitive.
   • 1920, Harold Monro, Preface to s: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

2. Endowed with intellect; having a keen sense of understanding; having the capacity for higher forms of knowledge or thought; characterized by intelligence or cleverness
   • 1894, Edgar Wilson Nye, Nye's History of the USA Chapter 30

     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.

3. Suitable for exercising one's intellect; perceived by the intellect
   • 1916, Joseph McCabe, The Tyranny of Shams Chapter IX

   • 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.

4. Relating to the understanding; treating of the mind.

5. (archaic, poetic) Spiritual.
   • 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):

     I deem not profitless those fleeting moods / Of shadowy exultation; not for this, / That they are kindred to our purer mind / And intellectual life […]

Antonyms

• nonintellectual

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Noun

intellectual (plural intellectuals)

1. An intelligent, learned person, especially one who discourses about learned matters.

   Synonym: highbrow

   Coordinate terms: egghead, nerd, geek

   • 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, pp. 20–21:

     ‘You know I hate intellectuals.’
     ‘You mean you hate people who are cleverer than you are.’
     ‘Yes. I suppose that's why I like you so much, Tom.’

2. (archaic) The intellect or understanding; mental powers or faculties.
   • 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, London: Edw. Dod & Nath. Ekins, 1650, Book I, Chapter 1, p. 2,^[1]

     […] although their intellectuals had not failed in the theory of truth, yet did the inservient and brutall faculties control the suggestion of reason […]

Derived terms

• public intellectual

Translations

See also

• intelligentsia

References

• intellectual in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• "intellectual" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 169.

English

Alternative forms

• entelligent (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle French intelligent, from Latin intelleg?ns (“discerning”), present active participle of intelleg? (“understand, comprehend”), itself from inter (“between”) + leg? (“choose, pick out, read”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?t?l?d???nt/

Adjective

intelligent (comparative more intelligent or intelligenter, superlative most intelligent or intelligentest)

1. Of high or especially quick cognitive capacity, bright.
2. Well thought-out, well considered.

3. Characterized by thoughtful interaction.

4. Having at least a similar level of brain power to humankind.

5. Having an environment-sensing automatically-invoked built-in computer capability.

Synonyms

• (of high or quick cognitive capacity): See Thesaurus:intelligent
• (similar level of brain power to mankind): See Thesaurus:self-aware

Antonyms

• stupid

Translations

Danish

Etymology

From French intelligent.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /enteli??nt/, [ent?eli????n?d?]

Adjective

intelligent

1. intelligent

Inflection

Synonyms

• begavet

Antonyms

• dum
• uintelligent

Derived terms

• intelligent liv
• uintelligent

Related terms

• intelligens

References

• “intelligent” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

From French intelligent, from Latin intelleg?ns (“discerning”), present active participle of intelleg? (“understand, comprehend”), itself from inter (“between”) + leg? (“choose, pick out, read”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

intelligent (comparative intelligenter, superlative intelligentst)

1. intelligent, bright, smart

Inflection

Related terms

• intellect
• intellectueel m & adjective
• intelligentia
• intelligentie

French

Etymology

From Latin intellig?ns (“discerning”), present active participle of intelleg? (“understand, comprehend”), itself from inter (“between”) + leg? (“choose, pick out, read”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.te.li.???/, /??.t?.li.???/, /??.t?l.li.???/

Adjective

intelligent (feminine singular intelligente, masculine plural intelligents, feminine plural intelligentes)

1. intelligent

Derived terms

• intelligemment
• téléphone intelligent

Related terms

References

Further reading

• “intelligent” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

German

Etymology

From Latin intelleg?ns (“discerning”), present active participle of intelleg? (“understand, comprehend”), itself from inter (“between”) + leg? (“choose, pick out, read”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??nt?li???nt/

Adjective

intelligent (comparative intelligenter, superlative am intelligentesten)

1. intelligent
   • 2010, Der Spiegel, issue 5/2010, page 100:

Declension

Related terms

• hochintelligent
• Intelligenz
• Intellekt
• intellektuell m

Further reading

• “intelligent” in Duden online

Latin

Verb

intelligent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of intellig?

Swedish

Adjective

intelligent

1. intelligent, bright