Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

intellectualoid

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: in-tel-lec-tu-aloid
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

5

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

One with intellectual pretensions

American usage; Derogatory

Example Sentences

"In the aftermath of this attack, it was reported that Bedell was a pot-smoking intellectualoid from California who left word on the Internet that according to his findings, a "coup regime" took over Washington at the time of President John F. Kennedy's assassination and has governed the country "up to the present day.""
"Barack Obama owes his position to his membership in a class that is destroying America: the intellectualoids -- shallow people able to fool others into believing they possess superior intellects."
"I do not think the press is "an enemy of the people," but, as Dwight Eisenhower said in 1964, its ranks are filled with "sensation-seeking columnists and commentators" whose writings mark them as little more than intellectualoids."

Etymology

Coined by columnist R. Emmett Tyrrell writing in The American Spectator from intellectual + -oid.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: intellectual

Usage

American usage
Derogatory

Inflected Forms

intellectualoids (plural)

Questions

What does intellectualoid mean?: One with intellectual pretensions
Where does intellectualoid come from?: Coined by columnist R. Emmett Tyrrell writing in The American Spectator from intellectual + -oid.

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