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outintellectual

outintellectual verb: to surpass (someone) in being intellectual.

Verb

outintellectual (third-person singular simple present outintellectuals, present participle (US) outintellectualing or (UK) outintellectualling, simple past and past participle (US) outintellectualed or (UK) outintellectualled)

  1. (rare, transitive) to surpass (someone) in being intellectual
    • You think learning is a big thing, and you become a big fucking intellectual, and sit around trying to outintellectual all the other big fucking intellectuals.1972, Fritz the Cat (film)
    • > Correlation doesn't imply
      > causation... but it sure as hell doesn't rule it out,
      > either.
      there ya go again trying to outintellectual yourself2012 March 24, ulticritic, “Re: The US Open is a Bad Idea”, in rec.sport.disc (Usenet), message-ID <dc6b59ed-40b2-49f3-aa3f-e01311b04878@q11g2000vbu.googlegroups.com>

Forms of outintellectual

third-person singular presentoutintellectuals
present participle USoutintellectualing
present participle UKoutintellectualling
past participle USoutintellectualed
past USoutintellectualed
past participle UKoutintellectualled
past UKoutintellectualled

Questions about outintellectual

What does outintellectual mean?
Outintellectual means to surpass (someone) in being intellectual.
What part of speech is outintellectual?
Outintellectual is a verb.
What is the past tense of outintellectual?
The past tense of outintellectual is outintellectualed.

Words near outintellectual in the dictionary

  1. outinnovating
  2. outinsult
  3. outinsulted
  4. outinsulting
  5. outinsults
  6. outintellectual
  7. outintellectualed
  8. outintellectualing
  9. outintellectuals
  10. outintrigue
  11. outintrigued

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