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/ˌɪntəlˈɛktʃuːəli/
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[ US /ˌɪnəˈɫɛktʃuəɫi, ˌɪnəˈɫɛktʃuɫi, ˌɪntəˈɫɛktʃuəɫi, ˌɪntəˈɫɛktʃuɫi/ ]
[ US /ˌɪnəˈɫɛktʃuəɫi, ˌɪnəˈɫɛktʃuɫi, ˌɪntəˈɫɛktʃuəɫi, ˌɪntəˈɫɛktʃuɫi/ ]
ADVERB
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in an intellectual manner
intellectually gifted children
intellectually influenced
How To Use intellectually In A Sentence
- The teenage years cover a period in which young women and men mature physically, intellectually and emotionally.
- This has become a motif among net-critics, whose vanguard is Andrew Keen, who wrote a sloppy, intellectually dishonest book called The Cult of the Amateur that damns the Internet for much the same reasons (Clay Shirky wrote a great response to Keen). Boing Boing
- He inherited an uneasy alliance of liberals and social democrats and he knew that, intellectually, the former had to prevail. Times, Sunday Times
- They instantly fall into certain companionable roles: the smartest one lends an educated perspective on a topic, the most outrageous one cracks the kind of jokes she wouldn’t dare to if a man were around, the least intellectually secure one feels safe enough to ask the most rudimentary questions. The Uses of Enchantment
- I came to intellectually accept the existence of this energy and often cited it when chatting with friends, but deep down I wondered whether it really existed and whether it might be simply a primitive word for the circulation of the blood, the tingling of nerves, the flow of lymph, or, more technically, the bioelectric energy of life stimulated by the charge potential that exists across cell membranes. Arthur Rosenfeld: Do You Feel the Energy of Life?
- The physically awkward but intellectually gifted nebbish was foregrounded in film and television by Woody Allen, Dustin Hoffman, and Richard Dreyfuss, and later by Jerry Seinfeld, Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller, and Larry David. A Renegade History of the United States
- On the contrary, the opposite view is intellectually more compelling.
- Like Bush, he is widely regarded as a philistine and intellectually limited man, whose pomposity and sense of self-importance are exceeded only by his provincialism.
- An evening at the Magpie and Crown in Brentford was certainly lively, intellectually stimulating and at times hysterically funny; and I think their cask-conditioned scrumpy is probably at least twice the advertised strength... A busy weekend...
- As a boy, Freud was intellectually precocious and an extremely hard worker.