as in intellectual
much given to learning and thinking
while living in Paris she fell in with a coterie of self-consciously arty, intellectualistic bohemians
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Adjective
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American historiography of the Civil War would be dominated by the Confederate-friendly into the middle of the twentieth century, providing intellectual backbone for the American version of apartheid.—
Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
5 Oct. 2025 -
Journalist/film scholar Mark Harris pops up late in the series to smooth some intellectual transitions.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
4 Oct. 2025
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The artist needs no cerebral middleman to move the motif from the world to the page.—
Harmon Siegel,
Artforum,
1 Oct. 2025
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If anything, their Didi and Gogo (Winter plays the former, the more cerebral and anxious of the two, and Reeves the latter, the disgruntled yet tender beta clown) are still a little on the solemn side.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
29 Sep. 2025
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“Intellectualistic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intellectualistic. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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