antiintellectual

A form of anti-intellectual — Hostile to intellectual thinking, methods, or ideas.

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Meanings

adjectiveantiintellectual (comparative more antiintellectual, superlative most antiintellectual)

comparative more antiintellectual · superlative most antiintellectual

  1. uncommonUncommon spelling of anti-intellectual.

    This is a traditionally philistine and antiintellectual country.

    1990 February 2, John Stevenson, “Reading: After the Bloom Boom”, in Chicago Reader
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    Not to encourage antiintellectual behavior, but if she can't avoid being valedictorian any other way, tell her to take a dive on that last physics quiz.

    1993 July 23, Cecil Adams, “The Straight Dope”, in Chicago Reader

Origin

From anti- + intellectual.

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APA

antiintellectual. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/antiintellectual

MLA

“antiintellectual.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/antiintellectual. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “antiintellectual,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/antiintellectual.

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