antiintellectual
See also: anti-intellectual
English
editEtymology
editFrom anti- + intellectual.
Adjective
editantiintellectual (comparative more antiintellectual, superlative most antiintellectual)
- Uncommon spelling of anti-intellectual.
- 1990 February 2, John Stevenson, “Reading: After the Bloom Boom”, in Chicago Reader[1]:
- This is a traditionally philistine and antiintellectual country.
- 1993 July 23, Cecil Adams, “The Straight Dope”, in Chicago Reader[2]:
- 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.