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NONINTELLECTUAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nonintellectual mean? 

NONINTELLECTUAL (adjective)
  The adjective NONINTELLECTUAL has 1 sense:

1. not intellectualplay

  Familiarity information: NONINTELLECTUAL used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


NONINTELLECTUAL (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Not intellectual

Similar:

anti-intellectual; philistine (smug and ignorant and indifferent or hostile to artistic and cultural values)

lowbrow; lowbrowed; uncultivated (characteristic of a person who is not cultivated or does not have intellectual tastes)

mindless (requiring little mental effort)

Also:

unscholarly (not scholarly)

Attribute:

intellect; mind (knowledge and intellectual ability)

Antonym:

intellectual (appealing to or using the intellect)


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