Sample Sentences for
intellectual
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intellectual as in:  intellectual stimulation

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    Einstein's intellectual achievements and originality have made the word Einstein synonymous with genius.
    intellectual = relating to the use of intelligence
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    I feel so fortunate that an intellectual giant like yourself would deign to operate on me.  (source)
    intellectual = intelligent
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    Universities are no longer the intellectual centers of the country.  (source)
    intellectual = relating to intelligent consideration of ideas
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    Only Piggy could have the intellectual daring to suggest moving the fire from the mountain.  (source)
    intellectual = relating to intelligent consideration of ideas
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    In his view an intellectually creative person must do physical labour in order to assess his own capabilities properly, and so he did his quota of work, although it interrupted his studies.  (source)
    intellectually = in a manner that relates to intelligence
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    Armand knew that: her impulses and imprudence, knew it still better; but Blakeney was slow-witted, he would not listen to "circumstances," he only clung to facts, and these had shown him Lady Blakeney denouncing a fellow man to a tribunal that knew no pardon: and the contempt he would feel for the deed she had done, however unwittingly, would kill that same love in him, in which sympathy and intellectuality could never had a part.†  (source)
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    He can't step away from it, can't intellectualize it, because it's still too close, too visceral.†  (source)
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    Is it impossible to combine the hardiness of these savages with the intellectualness of the civilized man?†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    His intellectualized morality couldn't let a decent man be killed for the strategy.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ize" converts a word to a verb. This is the same pattern you see in words like apologize, theorize, and dramatize.
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    It is not about intellectualizing God's commands, but about internalizing his truth within my heart as well as my head, an understanding so deep and intimate that it affects not only my thinking, but my behavior as well.†  (source)
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    His singular intellectual acuity, lost in the beatings from the Quack, returned to him.  (source)
    intellectual = related to intelligence
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    First I have to be more intellectually developed, like my genius of a sister.†  (source)
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    This despair of his not only unmasked the conceited lecturer and dismissed with its irony the matter at hand, the expectant attitude of the public, the somewhat presumptuous title under which the lecture was announced—no, the Steppenwolf's look pierced our whole epoch, its whole overwrought activity, the whole surge and strife, the whole vanity, the whole superficial play of a shallow, opinionated intellectuality.†  (source)
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intellectual as in:  She is an intellectual.

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    Adam Smith was a leading intellectual of his time.
    intellectual = a highly educated person interested in learning and exploring ideas
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    She uses a subtle satire that appeals to intellectuals.
    intellectuals = highly educated people interested in ideas
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    Mr. Hale is nearing forty, a tight-skinned, eager-eyed intellectual.  (source)
    intellectual = a highly educated person interested in learning and exploring ideas
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    A faction of intellectuals is no army.  (source)
    intellectuals = highly educated people interested in learning and exploring ideas
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    Asagai doesn't care how houses look, Mama—he's an intellectual.  (source)
    intellectual = highly educated person interested in ideas
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    They think they're being modern men, intellectuals, on account of their education, I suppose.†  (source)
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    Mrs. Bell was an intellectual and a member of a distinguished Savannah family.  (source)
    intellectual = highly educated person
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    One of the reactionary intellectuals who attacked the Party and socialism?†  (source)
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    She looked pretty but interesting, like Pete as an intellectual.  (source)
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    "Intellectuals always make a fuss about nothing," he muttered.†  (source)
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    Playing the stock market, of course, the last refuge in the world for the dangerous intellectual out of a job.  (source)
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    That's a debate for the scientists and the intellectuals.†  (source)
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    A part of me had thought I'd finally be revealed as an intellectual fraud, that the administration would realize they'd made a terrible mistake and send me back to Middletown with their sincerest apologies.  (source)
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