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- as the daughter of college professors, she's used to being around intellectual people
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- middlebrow
- erudite,
- learned,
- literate,
- polyhistoric,
- polymath
- (or polymathic),
- scholarly,
- well-read
- academic
- (also academical),
- bookish,
- professorial
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- intellectual pursuits such as reading and studying
Synonyms for intellectual
- cerebral,
- inner,
- interior,
- internal,
- mental,
- psychological
- (also psychologic)
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- brainless,
- dense,
- doltish,
- dopey
- (also dopy),
- fatuous,
- half-witted,
- mindless,
- obtuse,
- simple,
- slow-witted,
- stupid,
- thick,
- thickheaded,
- unintelligent,
- weak-minded,
- witless
Antonyms for intellectual
- research that shows that people from very intellectual backgrounds are happiest with spouses having comparable educations
Synonyms for intellectual
- academic
- (also academical),
- educational,
- scholarly,
- scholastic
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nounSynonyms & Antonyms of intellectual (Entry 2 of 2)
- discovered that in politics a reputation for being an intellectual was regarded as a liability
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“Intellectual.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intellectual. Accessed 11 Aug. 2022.
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