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 And for the first time in the 10 years the competition has been held at the VOA park, athletes with intellectual disabilities will be competing. — Sue Kiesewetter, The Enquirer, 29 July 2022 Senate Bill 94 expands eligibility to receive a Work Ready Kentucky scholarship to students who have intellectual disabilities and are enrolled in a comprehensive transition and postsecondary program. — Morgan Watkins, The Courier-Journal, 14 July 2022 The award was given to the company because of its commitment to competitive employment opportunities and creating an inclusive workplace for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, according to a statement from The Arc. — Tony Roberts, Baltimore Sun, 12 July 2022 Arc Detroit — advocates for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. — Liliana Webb, Detroit Free Press, 12 July 2022 For centuries, a marked face was interpreted as an outward sign of moral or intellectual degeneracy. — Lindsey Fitzharris, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 July 2022 From father to daughter, there is a clear line in the moral and intellectual commitment to seeing the enemy’s humanity. — Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2022 But unlike Naipaul, who settled in London and at times wrote disdainfully of his origins, Lamming returned home and became a moral, political and intellectual force for a newly independent country seeking to tell its own story. — Hillel Italie, USA TODAY, 20 June 2022 But unlike Naipaul, who settled in London and at times wrote disdainfully of his origins, Mr. Lamming returned home and became a moral, political, and intellectual force for a newly independent country seeking to tell its own story. — Hillel Italie, BostonGlobe.com, 19 June 2022 Recent Examples on the Web: Noun For an academic whose subject was historic musicology, Taruskin made a considerable splash as a public intellectual who published extensively in the New York Times, the New Republic and elsewhere. — Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2022 My dad was a deep thinker, an intellectual, a man with a vocabulary as big as his heart. — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 19 June 2022 In September, 1989, Adam Michnik, a Polish intellectual and a leader of the Solidarity movement, came to Ukraine to speak at Rukh’s first congress. — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022 Richard Taruskin, a commanding musicologist and public intellectual whose polemical scholarship and criticism upended conventional classical music history, died early Friday in Oakland, California. — William Robin, BostonGlobe.com, 2 July 2022 As readers might expect from the title, the influence of W.E.B. Du Bois, a leading Black intellectual and sociologist who lived from 1868 to 1963, is present throughout. — Samantha Laine Perfas, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 May 2022 Being an in-demand, and somewhat reluctant, public intellectual has left Robinson struggling to find time to start a new novel. — New York Times, 11 May 2022 As the historian Simon Sebag Montefiore’s work has shown, Stalin was a genuine Marxist intellectual who believed in class warfare and the evils of the bourgeoisie as much as any student at the Sorbonne. — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 16 May 2022 Hannah-Jones wants to be taken seriously as a public intellectual who deserves her Pulitzer Prize and her university professorship and whose historical writings are taught in schools. — Nr Editors, National Review, 17 Feb. 2022 See More

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