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intellectuals

NOUN

very smart person

Synonyms

STRONGEST

academic academician doctor intelligentsia philosopher pundit scholar thinker

STRONG

Einstein avant-garde brain egghead genius highbrow sage whiz wizard

WEAK

braintruster

Antonyms

STRONG

imbecile

WEAK

ignoramus

Example Sentences

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Rather than withdrawing from society, intellectuals have a moral obligation to the things they claim to believe in by participating in society.

From Salon • Apr. 19, 2026

Unifying the scenes is the narrator, Laura, who grew up in working-class conditions and has made an uneasy home among London’s intellectuals.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

And, an overlapping circle of liberals and intellectuals who wanted to restore the 1906 constitution with free elections and civil liberties.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

After Ghana became independent in 1957, a wave of black intellectuals and artists moved there from the US.

From BBC • Feb. 6, 2026

Before Columbus the primary objective of Renaissance intellectuals was to recover the lost culture of the past, not to establish new knowledge of their own.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton