Antonyms for intellectual
ˌɪn tlˈɛk tʃu əlin·tel·lec·tu·al

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1. intellectualnoun

   Antonyms:
   non-intellectual

2. intellectualnoun

   Belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental; as, intellectual powers, activities, etc.

   Antonyms:
   non-intellectual

3. intellectualadjective

   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.

   Antonyms:
   non-intellectual

4. intellectualadjective

   Antonyms:
   non-intellectual

5. intellectualadjective

   Antonyms:
   non-intellectual

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1. intellectual

   Clever, as used in England, especially implies an aptitude for study or learning, and for excellent tho not preeminent mental achievement. The early New England usage as implying simple and weak good nature has largely affected the use of the word throughout the United States, where it has never been much in favor. Smart, indicating dashing ability, is now coming to have a suggestion of unscrupulousness, similar to that of the word sharp, which makes its use a doubtful compliment. The discriminating use of such words as able, gifted, talented, etc., is greatly preferable to an excessive use of the word clever. Compare ACUMEN; ASTUTE; POWER.

   Antonyms:
   awkward, bungling, clumsy, dull, foolish, idiotic, ignorant, senseless, slow, stupid, thick-headed, witless

   Synonyms:
   able, adroit, apt, bright, capable, clever, dexterous, expert, gifted, happy, ingenious, intelligent, keen, knowing, quick, quick-witted, sharp, skilful, smart, talented

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1. intellectual

   Antonyms:
   unintellectual, unmetaphysical, unlearned

   Synonyms:
   mental, metaphysical, psychological, inventive, learned, cultured

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:4.0 / 1 vote

1. intellectual, intellectadjective

   a person who uses the mind creatively

   Antonyms:
   lowbrow, mindless, physical, lowbrowed, philistine, anti-intellectual, uncultivated, nonintellectual

   Synonyms:
   mind, understanding, reason, intellect

2. intellectual, rational, noeticadjective

   of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind

   "intellectual problems"; "the triumph of the rational over the animal side of man"

   Antonyms:
   anti-intellectual, uncultivated, lowbrowed, mindless, physical, lowbrow, nonintellectual, philistine

   Synonyms:
   cerebral, rational, noetic

3. intellectualadjective

   appealing to or using the intellect

   "satire is an intellectual weapon"; "intellectual workers engaged in creative literary or artistic or scientific labor"; "has tremendous intellectual sympathy for oppressed people"; "coldly intellectual"; "sort of the intellectual type"; "intellectual literature"

   Antonyms:
   philistine, physical, nonintellectual, uncultivated, lowbrowed, mindless, lowbrow, anti-intellectual

   Synonyms:
   cerebral, rational, noetic

4. cerebral, intellectualadjective

   involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct

   "a cerebral approach to the problem"; "cerebral drama"

   Antonyms:
   anti-intellectual, physical, mindless, uncultivated, nonintellectual, lowbrowed, philistine, lowbrow

   Synonyms:
   cerebral, rational, noetic

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1. low-brow

   Submitted by anonymous on May 19, 2021  

How to use intellectual in a sentence?

1. Rick Perry:

   Whoever the Republican nominee is, whether it's me or someone else, I hope we will have a legitimate intellectual conversation with the American people about federalism and how to make Washington inconsequential in people's lives.

2. David Seabury:

   Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear.

3. Barack Obama:

   Look, first of all, the climate is changing. I don’t think the science is clear what percentage is man-made and what percentage is natural. It’s convoluted. And for the people to say the science is decided on, this is just really arrogant, to be honest with you, it's this intellectual arrogance that now you can’t even have a conversation about it. The climate is changing, and we need to adapt to that reality.

4. Hunter S. Thompson:

   There is a progression of understanding vis-?-vis pro football that varies drastically with the factor of distance -- physical, emotional, intellectual and every other way. Which is exactly the way it should be, in the eyes of the amazingly small number of people who own and control the game, because it is this finely managed distance factor that accounts for the high-profit mystique that blew the sacred institution of baseball off its national pastime pedestal in less than fifteen years.

5. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley:

   Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

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