A person with a creative mind who studies and reflects and thinks himself out of a basic knowedge of who he really is.
Dude, an intellectual explained to me that the planet earth is the result of a "big bang" in the universe and that man evolved from the swamps.
A grown-up nerd.
(It must be noted that--typically--the burgeoning intellectual may/will suffer his/her nadir of social popularity between the age(s) of 12-21. However, after pubescence, everybody realizes how very interesting they (i.e. the intellectuals) are b/c they (i.e. the intellectuals) chose to stay inside, cultivating a personality, while the rest of the general population was drunkenly scrambling to remove their clothes.)
Being an intellectual, Tim M. Fenton used "The Dark Knight Returns" as the basis for his thesis on the influence of genre fiction in 1980's American literature.
Someone who watches the famous TV show "Rick and Morty"
✋️🛑300+ IQ
Guy 1: Dude u watch Rick and Morty?
Guy 2: Yeah
Guy 1: U must be an intellectual.
Bullshit. If you try to describe it, you're technically practicing it. It's just a stupid infinite loophole of edginess.
This definition is Intellectualism...
a. Having or showing intellect, especially to a high degree.
b. Given to activities or pursuits that require exercise of the intellect.
The elite 'Rick and Morty' fans that understand the shows deep humor and other things cretins wouldn't understand about the show.
"To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Rick and Morty" -Intellectual
When someone's all smart n shit.
You dumb as hell, I'm an intellectual. I bet you don't even know how go spell intellectual -
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