subintellectual
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From sub- + intellectual.
Adjective
[edit]subintellectual (comparative more subintellectual, superlative most subintellectual)
- Below the level of the intellect.
- 2009 February 1, Luc Sante, “Sontag: The Precocious Years”, in New York Times[1]:
- Even if, later on, she was able to examine and analyze certain aspects of popular culture (as in “Notes on Camp,” 1964), she could undertake such a thing only in service to a higher goal — she was immune to subintellectual cultural pleasures.
Noun
[edit]subintellectual (plural subintellectuals)
- A person who is less intelligent than an intellectual.