All intellectualist synonyms

noun intellectualist

• brain — Your brain is the organ inside your head that controls your body's activities and enables you to think and to feel things such as heat and pain.
• philosopher — a person who offers views or theories on profound questions in ethics, metaphysics, logic, and other related fields.
• sage — Alain René [a-lan ruh-ney] /aˈlɛ̃ rəˈneɪ/ (Show IPA), 1668–1747, French novelist and dramatist.
• scholar — a learned or erudite person, especially one who has profound knowledge of a particular subject.
• sophist — (often initial capital letter) Greek History. any of a class of professional teachers in ancient Greece who gave instruction in various fields, as in general culture, rhetoric, politics, or disputation. a person belonging to this class at a later period who, while professing to teach skill in reasoning, concerned himself with ingenuity and specious effectiveness rather than soundness of argument.
• mastermind — to plan and direct (a usually complex project or activity), especially skillfully: Two colonels had masterminded the revolt.
• mind — (in a human or other conscious being) the element, part, substance, or process that reasons, thinks, feels, wills, perceives, judges, etc.: the processes of the human mind.
• student — a person formally engaged in learning, especially one enrolled in a school or college; pupil: a student at Yale.
• theorist — a person who theorizes.
• intellectual — appealing to or engaging the intellect: intellectual pursuits.
• casuist — a person, esp a theologian, who attempts to resolve moral dilemmas by the application of general rules and the careful distinction of special cases