intellectual
People who do not engage in intellectually challenging activities are three times more likely to get Alzheimer's.
She is intellectually gifted but selfish and weak.
My work at the company has been so intellectually stimulating.

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intellectually | American Dictionary

intellectually
adverb
us/ˌɪnt·əlˈek·tʃu·ə·li/
in a way that involves thinking and understanding at a high level:
It's fun and it's intellectually stimulating (= encourages you to think at a high level).

intellectually | Business English

intellectually
adverb
uk /ˌɪntəlˈektjuəli/us
in a way that relates to your ability to think and understand things, especially complicated ideas:
intellectually challenging/stimulating/interestingThe work is well-paid and intellectually stimulating.
The company recruits some of the most intellectually gifted graduates from the university.

Examples of intellectually

intellectually
Under such conditions education would be impossible, and all orderly development intellectually or morally would be hopeless.
Singers of the fifteenth century faced parallel problems, particularly in the performance of the most intellectually complex music of the day.
Multiple regression and analysis of intellectually preserved patients suggested particular associations of formal thought disorder with semantic comprehension and picture description.
This problem is intellectually enormously interesting, since solving it would provide ways of modulating the activities of proteins in vivo.
As an act of will, choice is intellectually motivated, and some motives are subordinated to others.
So even if natural theology is intellectually unsatisfactory, religion may still be believable and rational.
It is intellectually stimulating to speculate, based on known rules of physics and chemistry, exotic life forms that might not be carbon-based.
Few academics any longer talk about students intellectually maturing as they participate in the professor's scholarly interests.
Secondly, naming is obviously semantic, but this was found to be intact in the intellectually preserved patients.
That, and the fact that he could write clearly and without technical jargon, made him appealing to his readers emotionally as well intellectually.
Many ' rising men ' supplemented a core group of senior churchmen, ensuring that the commission was both intellectually highpowered and politically astute.
Intellectually, it meant a change in the status of astronomy from a "subordinate" to an autonomous science.
It was an intellectually courageous but often perilous balancing act.
Compared to the previously cited work these papers seem like intellectually provocative word games.
This book presents a narrative of radical narratives that is at once intellectually rigorous and appropriately moving, and this is entirely to its credit.
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