INTELLECTUALISTS Synonyms: 36 Similar and Opposite Words

intellectualists

noun

plural of intellectualist

as in intellectuals

a person with strong intellectual interests being an intellectualist, he has little in common with the status-seeking philistines who live next door

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Not in the esoteric way that speaks to intellectuals and insiders.

— Robin Givhan, Vanity Fair, 19 Aug. 2026
Recent developments have made new an old idea that emerged among nineteenth-century intellectuals in tsarist Russia who rebelled against the elite fixation with the West.

— Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026

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