Word Meanings - INTELLECT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The part or faculty of the human soul by which it knows, as distinguished from the power to feel and to will; sometimes, the capacity for higher forms of knowledge, as distinguished from the power to perceive objects in their relations; the power

Additional info about word: INTELLECT

The part or faculty of the human soul by which it knows, as distinguished from the power to feel and to will; sometimes, the capacity for higher forms of knowledge, as distinguished from the power to perceive objects in their relations; the power to judge and comprehend; the thinking faculty; the understanding.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INTELLECT)

• Genius
• Talent
• cleverness
• inventiveness
• creativeness
• intellect
• skill
• giftedness
• ideality
• endowment
• nature
• gift
• character
• faculty
• Intelligence
• Understanding
• apprehension
• comprehension
• conception
• announcement
• report
• rumor
• tidings
• news
• information
• publication
• mind
• knowledge
• advice
• notice
• instruction
• Judgment
• Decision
• determination
• adjudication
• sagacity
• penetration
• judiciousness
• sense
• belief
• estimation
• opinion
• verdict
• sentence
• discernment
• discrimination
• intelligence
• prudence
• award
• condemnation
• Mind
• Soul
• spirit
• understanding
• sentiment
• judgment
• choice
• inclination
• desire
• will
• liking
• purpose
• impetus
• memory
• remembrance
• recollection
• Spirit
• vital principle
• life
• reason
• vitality
• fire
• leader
• inspirer
• energy
• courage
• fervor
• affection
• feeling
• being
• person

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of INTELLECT)

• Chance
• risk
• hazard
• revoke
• Miscalculate
• venture
• stake
• Silence
• hush
• suppress
• misreport
• misrepresent
• miarelate
• falsify

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  To tear with the nails; to cover with scratches.
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• BEASTLIHEAD
  Beastliness. Spenser.
• BEWRAP
  To wrap up; to cover. Fairfax.
• BERGOMASK
  A rustic dance, so called in ridicule of the people of Bergamo, in Italy, once noted for their clownishness.
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• BEVELMENT
  The replacement of an edge by two similar planes, equally inclined to the including faces or adjacent planes.
• BESCATTER
  1. To scatter over. 2. To cover sparsely by scattering ; to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser.
• BELEAVE
  To leave or to be left. May.
• BETSO
  A small brass Venetian coin.
• CHARACTERISTIC
  Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
• BESCORN
  To treat with scorn. "Then was he bescorned." Chaucer.
• SPIRITUOUS
  1. Having the quality of spirit; tenuous in substance, and having active powers or properties; ethereal; immaterial; spiritual; pure. 2. Containing, or of the nature of, alcoholic spirit; consisting of refined spirit; alcoholic; ardent;
• BETOKEN
  1. To signify by some visible object; to show by signs or tokens. A dewy cloud, and in the cloud a bow . . . Betokening peace from God, and covenant new. Milton. 2. To foreshow by present signs; to indicate something future by that which is seen
• BELLADONNA
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  The trepang.
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  Chancellorship. Gower.
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  The act of betrothing, or the fact of being betrothed; a mutual promise, engagement, or contract for a future marriage between the persons betrothed; betrothment; affiance. "The feast of betrothal." Longfellow.
• HAZARDIZE
  A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. Herself had run into that hazardize. Spenser.
• COMBER
  1. One who combs; one whose occupation it is to comb wool, flax, etc. Also, a machine for combing wool, flax, etc. 2. A long, curling wave.
• GABBER
  1. A liar; a deceiver. 2. One addicted to idle talk.
• HAIRBELL
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• ORBED
  Having the form of an orb; round. The orbèd eyelids are let down. Trench.
• PUBLIC-SPIRITED
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  Superfetation. Sir T. Browne.
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