Other Words from intellectual

Adjective

intellectuality \ ˌin-tə-ˌlek-chə-ˈwa-lə-tē

\ noun

intellectually \ ˌin-tə-ˈlek-chə-wə-lē

, -chə-lē , -shwə-lē , -chü(-ə)-lē \ adverb

intellectualness \ ˌin-tə-ˈlek-chə-wəl-nəs

, -chəl- , -shwəl- , -chü(-ə)l- \ noun

Examples of intellectual in a Sentence

Adjective the social and intellectual life of the campus as the daughter of college professors, she's used to being around intellectual people Noun He thinks that he's an intellectual, but he doesn't know what he's talking about. She's a hard worker but she's no great intellectual. a café where artists and intellectuals mingle

Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective The new bill does not include terms requested by higher education faculty that explicitly affirm academic and intellectual freedom, and no changes have been made to sections that discuss grant funding and K-12 instruction. — al, 8 Mar. 2022 Empathy is the intellectual identification of thoughts, feelings, or state of another person, while kindness is the state of being kind. — Sarah Boyd, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2022 Martínez Celaya spent his teenage years in Puerto Rico, reading German philosophers and cultivating an intellectual life that further served as a form of protection from letting his true internal turmoil show. — Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2022 Rather, they were deemed an outright enemy to black intellectual life. — Anika Prather, National Review, 20 Feb. 2022 At the university campuses on the edge of town, scholars of ancient China were put forward to rhapsodize about new gains in governance, diplomacy, and intellectual life. — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 11 Feb. 2022 Imani Perry, educator, historian and author of South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation, says the disappointment of the Jim Crow era became the foundation of Black intellectual life. — Ellen Mcgirt, Fortune, 1 Feb. 2022 After at least half a century in which spurious innovation has dominated intellectual and artistic life, provocation has become tediously conventional. — Samuel Goldman, The Week, 27 Oct. 2021 Now, age 57 and living in Germany, Mrs. McAloon is on yet another mission: as a host of a podcast interviewing authors and other figures in Catholic intellectual life. — Julie Halpert, WSJ, 22 Oct. 2021 Recent Examples on the Web: Noun The enormously influential intellectual, who died over the weekend at 79, kept up the fight until the very end. — Jeffrey C. Isaac, The New Republic, 7 Feb. 2022 What kind of young conservative intellectual does an age of Trumpian populism create? — The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 8 Dec. 2021 Also on the list are recordings of political speeches by suffragist Gertrude Foster Brown and African-American intellectual Booker T. Washington. — Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Dec. 2021 An avant-garde intellectual, Gruen despised cars and the car culture of commercial streets such as 8 Mile, Telegraph and Livernois. — Bill Mcgraw, Detroit Free Press, 30 Jan. 2022 As author Ben Judah notes in an informative tweet thread, French-Jewish intellectual Eric Zemmour recently made news by suggesting that parts of northern Italy rightly belonged to France. — Damon Linker, The Week, 7 July 2021 Just as Perry Mason began his run as America’s most popular lawyer, William F. Buckley, Jr. began his career as America’s most dynamic conservative intellectual. — Peter J. Travers, National Review, 29 June 2021 The dad in question was Marcus Raskin, a formidable intellectual who would go on to help found the Institute for Policy Studies, which at its peak was Washington’s top left-leaning think tank. — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 3 Jan. 2022 The book begins by turning the history of the Enlightenment on its head, contending that the 18th century European quest for rational thought actually begins in the Americas with a Wendat intellectual named Kandiaronk. — Washington Post, 26 Nov. 2021 See More

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