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pseudointellectual

American

[soo-doh-in-tl-ek-choo-uhl] / ˌsu doʊˌɪn tlˈɛk tʃu əl /

noun

a person exhibiting intellectual pretensions that have no basis in sound scholarship.
a person who pretends an interest in intellectual matters for reasons of status.

adjective

of, relating to, or characterized by fraudulent intellectuality; unscholarly.

a pseudointellectual book.

Other Word Forms

pseudointellectually

adverb

Etymology

Origin of pseudointellectual

First recorded in 1935–40; pseudo- + intellectual

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