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intellectually

intellectually adverb: in an intellectual manner.

Adverb

intellectually (comparative more intellectually, superlative most intellectually)

  1. In an intellectual manner.
    • 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.1949, F. A. Hayek, “The Intellectuals and Socialism”, in University of Chicago Law Review, volume 16, number 3, Chicago: University of Chicago, →DOI, page 421
    • Nevertheless intellectually, ideologically and politically he identified with industrialists whom he, just like Smith, saw as the usherers of progress.2002, Yanis Varoufakis, Foundations of Economics: A Beginner's Companion, page 25

Examples of intellectually in a sentence

  • Intellectually, Ibanez had understood that there would be a lot of caverns.
  • Conservatives pointed out that an à-la-carte approach to scientific findings was intellectually incoherent.
  • The human soul studies the divine cosmos both physically and intellectually.

All 30 example sentences with intellectually

Forms of intellectually

comparativemore intellectually
superlativemost intellectually

Origin of intellectually

From intellectual + -ly.

Words formed from intellectually

Questions about intellectually

What does intellectually mean?
Intellectually means in an intellectual manner.
What part of speech is intellectually?
Intellectually is an adverb.

Words near intellectually in the dictionary

  1. intellectualizers
  2. intellectualizes
  3. intellectualizing
  4. intellectuall
  5. intellectualls
  6. intellectually
  7. intellectually challenged
  8. intellectually disabled
  9. intellectualness
  10. intellectualoid
  11. intellectualoids

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