NONINTELLECTUAL Synonyms: 19 Similar and Opposite Words

nonintellectual

adjective

Definition of nonintellectual

as in lowbrow

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Recent Examples of nonintellectual Such thumbnail indictments of the nonintellectual masses seemed to stem from Hofstadter’s own mounting sense of political and cultural homelessness in the postwar world. — Chris Lehmann, The New Republic, 16 Apr. 2020 George, meanwhile, grew up in a cheerfully nonintellectual and inclusive household that celebrated Christmas and just about anything involving their son, even Lizzie. — Ellen Emry Heltzel, The Seattle Times, 3 Sep. 2017

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Adjective

In the sixties, artists such as Roy Lichtenstein and Peter Saul had plundered lowbrow visual culture for elemental materials.

— Laura Preston, New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2026
After all, The Odyssey’s initial success has both a highbrow and a lowbrow element to it.

— David Sims, The Atlantic, 23 July 2026

Definition of lowbrow

Adjective

This notion when applied to classrooms, teachers, and students is anti-educational and anti-intellectual.

— Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 7 June 2026
Trump proved to be a vexing ideological lodestar—aggressively anti-intellectual in his attitudes and consistently inconsistent in his views.

— Jason Zengerle, New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2026

Definition of anti-intellectual

Adjective

Ira, in my very uneducated opinion, there are eight teams in the East that could finish first, and any of those eight could be eighth.

— Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 24 Sep. 2026
As a peripheral community grows around them, this lawless terrain is suddenly subject to boundaries and contracts and taxes; both uneducated and illiterate, Isak and Inger are ill prepared for such societal evolution.

— Guy Lodge, Variety, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of uneducated

Adjective

Also, the incorrect assumption among those who either are ignorant of the real economic realities or just don’t care and just want to pander to their own districts.

— Dominic Patten, Deadline, 30 Sep. 2026
The old worst dressed lists could be cruel, sexist, culturally ignorant, and spectacularly misguided.

— Derek C. Blasberg, Vanity Fair, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of ignorant

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