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English noun: intellect | |||
| 1. | intellect (cognition) knowledge and intellectual ability | ||
| Samples | He reads to improve his mind. He has a keen intellect. | ||
| Synonyms | mind | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | intelligence | ||
| Attribute | intellectual, nonintellectual | ||
| 2. | intellect (cognition) the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination | ||
| Samples | We are told that man is endowed with reason and capable of distinguishing good from evil. | ||
| Synonyms | reason, understanding | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | faculty, mental faculty, module | ||
| 3. | intellect (person) a person who uses the mind creatively | ||
| Synonyms | intellectual | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | alchemist, anomalist, aphorist, bel esprit, bookman, brain, brainiac, clever clogs, clever Dick, creative thinker, decipherer, decoder, doubter, egghead, Einstein, exponent, expositor, expounder, genius, highbrow, idealogue, illusionist, mastermind, mentor, mind, sceptic, scholar, scholarly person, seer, skeptic, specifier, student, subjectivist, synthesiser, synthesist, synthesizer, theoretician, theoriser, theorist, theorizer, thinker, thinker, visionary, wise man, wonderer | ||
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