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pseudointellectual

[ soo-doh-in-tl-ek-choo-uhl ]

noun

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


adjective

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

    a pseudointellectual book.

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Other Words From

  • pseudo·intel·lectu·al·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of pseudointellectual1

First recorded in 1935–40; pseudo- + intellectual
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Example Sentences

As soon as I heard this long, desperate stream of pseudointellectual gibberish, I knew instantly that this thing was doomed.

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