intellectually
/ˌɪntəlˈɛktʃuəli/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.34 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
6
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In an intellectual manner.
Example Sentences
- "And just because the intellectuals are mostly intellectually honest it is inevitable that they should follow their own convictions whenever they have discretion and that they should give a corresponding slant to everything that passes through their hand."
- "Nevertheless intellectually, ideologically and politically he identified with industrialists whom he, just like Smith, saw as the usherers of progress."
Etymology
Etymology tree English intellectual Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English intellectually From intellectual + -ly.
Inflected Forms
more intellectually (comparative)
most intellectually (superlative)