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Definition of Anti-intellectual

1. Noun. A person who is uninterested in intellectual pursuits.

2. Adjective. Smug and ignorant and indifferent or hostile to artistic and cultural values.

Definition of Anti-intellectual

1. Adjective. indifferent or hostile to cultural or intellectual ideas ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Anti-intellectual

anti-idiotype antibody anti-idiotype autoantibody anti-immigrant anti-imperialism anti-imperialist anti-incendiary anti-infective anti-inflammatories anti-inflammatory anti-inflammatory agent

anti-inflammatory drug anti-inflationary anti-institutionalism anti-insulin anti-insulin antibody anti-intellectual (current term) anti-intellectualism anti-kidney serum nephritis anti-knock anti-labor

anti-labour anti-lapse anti-life anti-lifer anti-lock anti-marketeer anti-matter anti-microbial anti-microsomal antibodies anti-migraine

Literary usage of Anti-intellectual

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Problems of Science by Federigo Enriques (1914)
"The work of Professor En- riques stands somewhat above and apart from those philosophical controversies which the anti-intellectual movement has inspired; ..."

2. The School World (1905)
"The anti-intellectual atmosphere unfortunately existing in some places where ... I am with our critics in holding that this anti-intellectual atmosphere ..."

3. The Problem of Knowledge by Douglas Clyde Macintosh (1915)
"... take into account not only intellectualism and the pragmatic form of anti-intellectual- ism, but the intuitional form of anti-intellectualism as well. ..."

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