Cerebral
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Of, or relating to the brain or cerebral cortex of the brain. Intellectual rather than emotional. Retroflex.
Example sentence: Football's always been cerebral. The most important thing is thinking fast.
Intellectual
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental; as, intellectual powers, activities, etc.Endowed with intellect; having the power of understanding; having capacity for the higher forms of knowledge or thought; characterized by intelligence or mental capacity; as, an intellectual person.Suitable for exercising the intellect; formed by, and existing for, the intellect alone; perceived by the intellect; as, intellectual employments.Relating to the understanding; treating of the mind; as, intellectual philosophy, sometimes called "mental" philosophy.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: An intelligent person, someone interested in intellectual matters.The intellect or understanding; mental powers or faculties.
Example sentence: Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.