different between intellectual vs cultural

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

Etymology

From culture +? -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?lt?????l/

Adjective

cultural (comparative more cultural, superlative most cultural)

1. Pertaining to culture.

Derived terms

Translations

Asturian

Adjective

cultural (epicene, plural culturales)

1. cultural

Related terms

• cultura

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /kul.tu??al/
• Rhymes: -al

Adjective

cultural (masculine and feminine plural culturals)

1. cultural

Derived terms

• culturalment
• intercultural
• multicultural
• sociocultural

Related terms

• cultura

Further reading

• “cultural” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “cultural” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “cultural” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “cultural” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Galician

Adjective

cultural m or f (plural culturais)

1. cultural

Derived terms

• culturalmente
• sociocultural

Related terms

• cultura

Further reading

• “cultural” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Occitan

Alternative forms

• culturau (Gascon)

Adjective

cultural m (feminine singular culturala, masculine plural culturals, feminine plural culturalas)

1. cultural

Derived terms

• pluricultural

Related terms

• cultura

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kuwtu??aw/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ku?tu??a?/
• Hyphenation: cul?tu?ral

Adjective

cultural m or f (plural culturais, comparable)

1. Pertaining to culture; cultural.

Inflection

Derived terms

• culturalmente
• intercultural
• sociocultural

Further reading

• “cultural” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Romanian

Etymology

From French culturel.

Adjective

cultural m or n (feminine singular cultural?, masculine plural culturali, feminine and neuter plural culturale)

1. cultural

Declension

Derived terms

• anticultural
• culturaliza

Spanish

Etymology

cultura +? -al

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kultu??al/, [kul?.t?u??al]
• Hyphenation: cul?tu?ral

Adjective

cultural (plural culturales)

1. (relational) culture; cultural (of or relating to culture)

Derived terms

Related terms

• cultura
• culturar

References

• “cultural” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.