intellectual
adjective
appealing to or engaging the intellect.
semi-intellectual
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a word derived from
intellectual.
Example Sentences
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Thus the elderly engineers who also live at Isaac's boarding house opine about the nature of matter and spirit, the "seven mosquitoes of the Apocalypse," and other semi-intellectual, semi-jocular subjects.
From Reuters ● May 14, 2010
It was to be a semi-intellectual merrymaking, but Dr. Knight said: At the Ashville, N.C.,
From Time Magazine Archive
Every so often, the semi-intellectual communities at the fringes of the arts, the universities, and the communications industries are hit by a new book, which becomes a fad or a parlor game.
From Time Magazine Archive
There are many different morbid states of the mind, and this of the hero of “Maud” is only one of them, but it is the commonest amongst intellectual or semi-intellectual young men.
From The Intellectual Life by Philip Gilbert Hamerton
His father, a diplomatist, had been dead fifteen years; his mother was well known in the semi-intellectual circles of society.
From Beyond by John Galsworthy
