intellectuals

nounvery smart person

Synonyms for intellectuals

noun very smart person

Antonyms for intellectuals

Word Origin & History

late 14c., "grasped by the understanding" (rather than by the senses), from Old French intellectuel and directly from Latin intellectualis "relating to the understanding," from intellectus "discernment, understanding," from past participle stem of intelligere "to understand, discern" (see intelligence). Intellectual property attested from 1845. Other adjective formations included intellective (late 15c.), intellectile (1670s).

Example Sentences for intellectuals

For the most part this stand is taken by the intellectuals in all modern countries.

That is because they are intellectuals, and war is a thing beyond the understanding of intellectuals.

The intellectuals, rationalists, political theorists.The "social compact."

The other caste—the Illiterates—were dependents of the Intellectuals.

He himself, in his book on Orthodoxy, throws over the intellectuals.

This was a cause of the intellectuals, but it was also a popular cause.

These were no peasants steeped in ignorance, but intellectuals.

Well, it's a fact, I hadn't thought much of them intellectuals.

When I have gone, perhaps the intellectuals will not feel so bored.

The farmers will toil their land and intellectuals will conspire.