What are some opposite words for intellectual?
Antonyms for intellectual
ˌɪn tlˈɛk tʃu əlin·tel·lec·tu·al
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Wiktionary
intellectualnoun
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non-intellectualintellectualnoun
Belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental; as, intellectual powers, activities, etc.
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non-intellectualintellectualadjective
Endowed with intellect; having the power of understanding; having capacity for the higher forms of knowledge or thought; characterized by intelligence or mental capacity; as, an intellectual person.
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non-intellectualintellectualadjective
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non-intellectualintellectualadjective
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non-intellectual
English Synonyms and Antonyms
intellectual
Clever, as used in England, especially implies an aptitude for study or learning, and for excellent tho not preeminent mental achievement. The early New England usage as implying simple and weak good nature has largely affected the use of the word throughout the United States, where it has never been much in favor. Smart, indicating dashing ability, is now coming to have a suggestion of unscrupulousness, similar to that of the word sharp, which makes its use a doubtful compliment. The discriminating use of such words as able, gifted, talented, etc., is greatly preferable to an excessive use of the word clever. Compare ACUMEN; ASTUTE; POWER.
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awkward, bungling, clumsy, dull, foolish, idiotic, ignorant, senseless, slow, stupid, thick-headed, witlessSynonyms:
able, adroit, apt, bright, capable, clever, dexterous, expert, gifted, happy, ingenious, intelligent, keen, knowing, quick, quick-witted, sharp, skilful, smart, talented
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
intellectual
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unintellectual, unmetaphysical, unlearnedSynonyms:
mental, metaphysical, psychological, inventive, learned, cultured
Princeton's WordNet
intellectual, intellectadjective
a person who uses the mind creatively
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lowbrow, mindless, physical, lowbrowed, philistine, anti-intellectual, uncultivated, nonintellectualSynonyms:
mind, understanding, reason, intellectintellectual, rational, noeticadjective
of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind
"intellectual problems"; "the triumph of the rational over the animal side of man"
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anti-intellectual, uncultivated, lowbrowed, mindless, physical, lowbrow, nonintellectual, philistineintellectualadjective
appealing to or using the intellect
"satire is an intellectual weapon"; "intellectual workers engaged in creative literary or artistic or scientific labor"; "has tremendous intellectual sympathy for oppressed people"; "coldly intellectual"; "sort of the intellectual type"; "intellectual literature"
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philistine, physical, nonintellectual, uncultivated, lowbrowed, mindless, lowbrow, anti-intellectualcerebral, intellectualadjective
involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct
"a cerebral approach to the problem"; "cerebral drama"
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anti-intellectual, physical, mindless, uncultivated, nonintellectual, lowbrowed, philistine, lowbrow
Editors Contribution
low-brow
How to use intellectual in a sentence?
The failure of the mind in old age is often less the results of natural decay, than of disuse. Ambition has ceased to operate; contentment bring indolence, and indolence decay of mental power, ennui, and sometimes death. Men have been known to die, literally speaking, of disease induced by intellectual vacancy.
The human mind demands intellectual expansion and expression.”
But we are not going to allow university students to be unduly influenced, we are not going to allow theft of intellectual property, and we are not going to allow our government bodies or non-government bodies to be hacked into.
The most dangerous aspect of present-day life is the dissolution of the feeling of individual responsibility. Mass solitude has done away with any difference between the internal and the external, between the intellectual and the physical.
To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal.
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