What are some opposite words for intellectual?

Antonyms for intellectual
ˌɪn tlˈɛk tʃu əlin·tel·lec·tu·al

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  1. intellectualnoun

    Antonyms:
    non-intellectual

  2. intellectualnoun

    Belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental; as, intellectual powers, activities, etc.

    Antonyms:
    non-intellectual

  3. intellectualadjective

    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.

    Antonyms:
    non-intellectual

  4. intellectualadjective

    Antonyms:
    non-intellectual

  5. intellectualadjective

    Antonyms:
    non-intellectual

English Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. 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.

    Antonyms:
    awkward, bungling, clumsy, dull, foolish, idiotic, ignorant, senseless, slow, stupid, thick-headed, witless

    Synonyms:
    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 Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. intellectual

    Antonyms:
    unintellectual, unmetaphysical, unlearned

    Synonyms:
    mental, metaphysical, psychological, inventive, learned, cultured

Princeton's WordNet4.0 / 1 vote

  1. intellectual, intellectadjective

    a person who uses the mind creatively

    Antonyms:
    lowbrow, mindless, physical, lowbrowed, philistine, anti-intellectual, uncultivated, nonintellectual

    Synonyms:
    mind, understanding, reason, intellect

  2. intellectual, 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"

    Antonyms:
    anti-intellectual, uncultivated, lowbrowed, mindless, physical, lowbrow, nonintellectual, philistine

    Synonyms:
    cerebral, rational, noetic

  3. intellectualadjective

    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"

    Antonyms:
    philistine, physical, nonintellectual, uncultivated, lowbrowed, mindless, lowbrow, anti-intellectual

    Synonyms:
    cerebral, rational, noetic

  4. cerebral, intellectualadjective

    involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct

    "a cerebral approach to the problem"; "cerebral drama"

    Antonyms:
    anti-intellectual, physical, mindless, uncultivated, nonintellectual, lowbrowed, philistine, lowbrow

    Synonyms:
    cerebral, rational, noetic

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  1. low-brow

    Submitted by anonymous on May 19, 2021  

How to use intellectual in a sentence?

  1. Sir B. Brodie:

    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.

  2. Brandon Garic Notch:

    The human mind demands intellectual expansion and expression.”

  3. Peter Dutton:

    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.

  4. Eugenio Montale:

    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.

  5. Saint Augustine:

    To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal.

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Words popularity by usage frequency

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#1269physical
#2901slow
#3740intellectual
#4775stupid
#13293dull
#14614ignorant
#16072foolish
#17452awkward
#18688mindless
#28776clumsy
#35057senseless
#38606idiotic
#87003philistine
#88529lowbrow
#94975unlearned
#101823witless
#108120bungling
#122011uncultivated

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