anti-intellectual

1. 1.

   a person who is uninterested in intellectual pursuits

   Synonymsphilistinelowbrow

   Broaderplebeian

1. 1.

   smug and ignorant and indifferent or hostile to artistic and cultural values

   Synonymsphilistine

   Similarnonintellectual

Questions about anti-intellectual

What does anti-intellectual mean?

anti-intellectual means "a person who is uninterested in intellectual pursuits". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in anti-intellectual?

anti-intellectual has 7 syllables: an-ti--in-tel-lec-tu-al. The stress falls on "lec".

What is another word for anti-intellectual?

Close synonyms include philistine, lowbrow, philistine. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is anti-intellectual a common word?

anti-intellectual is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.