Subintellectual
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Subintellectual is an adjective meaning Below the level of the intellect.
Meaning
Below the level of the intellect.
More Meanings
- A person who is less intelligent than an intellectual.
Example Sentences
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.
Word Forms
- subintellectuals
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include subanimate, underbrained, shallow, grunt-level, underlanguaged, brainless.
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