Noun: intellectual
| Singular | intellectual |
| Plural | intellectuals |
Sample Sentences
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It should be noted that there is now no intelligentsia that is not in some sense "Left". Perhaps the last right-wing intellectual was T. E. Lawrence. Since about 1930 everyone describable as an “intellectual” has lived in a state of chronic discontent with the existing order. [1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn:]
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‘You know I hate intellectuals.’
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‘You mean you hate people who are cleverer than you are.’
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‘Yes. I suppose that’s why I like you so much, Tom.’ [1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section I, page 14:]
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[…] although their intellectuals had not failed in the theory of truth, yet did the inservient and brutall faculties control the suggestion of reason […] [1646, Thomas Browne, chapter 1, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], London: […] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward Dod, […], →OCLC, 1st book, page 2:]
Nouns inflected like intellectual
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old French intellectuel, from Latin intellectualis.
Verbs referencing "intellectual"
French Nouns
intellectuel.