Subintellectual
adj, noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A person who is less intelligent than an intellectual.
Adjective
- 1 Below the level of the intellect.
"Even if, later on, she was able to examine and analyze certain aspects of popular culture (as in “Notes on Camp,” 1964), she could undertake such a thing only in service to a higher goal — she was immune to subintellectual cultural pleasures."
Example
More examples"Even if, later on, she was able to examine and analyze certain aspects of popular culture (as in “Notes on Camp,” 1964), she could undertake such a thing only in service to a higher goal — she was immune to subintellectual cultural pleasures."
Etymology
From sub- + intellectual.
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