intellectually digest

To think about, consider, and reflect on a deep idea or concept in order to make sense of it and to integrate it into your understanding of the world

When you intellectually digest the ideas behind evolution, you will have a better understanding of how COVID can have repeated waves of infection in a human population.

by dwmcphd March 9, 2022

intellectual origami

Like word salad but the words coming out of the person speaking actually sound intelligent and enable the speaker to come across as intellectual. Intellectual origami involves sounding intellectual for the sake of sounding intellectual. The speaker will use high profile and scientific sounding words. Think of origami like an intricately folded collection of sharp edges which look impressive, but have much less weight than you’d think.

Paul from Love Is Blind deployed his intellectual origami when speaking or answering any question that production asked him. It would sound impressive, but ultimately it was just a form of intellectual word salad.

by Bah Zah May 5, 2023

Intellectual Donation

Sharing with others the thoughts, ideas, wisdom for the welfare of an individual, entity or society

An initiative seeking intellectual donation for the cause of the deprived section of society has been taken under the aegis of British Lingua, an institute of communication skills.

by birbaljha November 28, 2020

Intellectual Prostitute

One who sells use of their mind, similarly to how a prostitute sells use of their body.

"Do you have any prior experience working at a library or with children?"
"No, but I was an intellectual prostitute for a few years before I applied here."
"A what?"

by usedhumanhands December 8, 2024

Pseudo-intellectual

An individual who spends more time trying to flex their intellect rather than actually wanting to learn. Pseudo-intellectuals aren't unintelligent or uneducated per se, however the crux of the issue is that they are not as intelligent as they are letting on. For example, to be an intellect on a specific subject, an intellectual would read multiple books or articles then study them in order to retain all the information. A pseudo-intellectual would read one article and label themselves an expert on the subject.

Ways to spot a pseudo-intellectual

1. Plagiarising
2. Quoting
3. Using advanced language to make themselves sound smart, but fails because they use the word incorrectly
4. They use their knowledge as a weapon. For example smart people want to pass on the knowledge they have to other people to inform them on a certain subject. Pseudo-intellectuals on the other hand seek to impress and show off, so put others down to increase their feelings of superiority and lower the self worth of others for their own personal gain
5. They like to start arguments whether it is on politics, philosophy, religion or science, but it ends up backfiring on them due to only retaining snippets of information on these topics, but not the full story, whereas their opponent has been pre-educated before the debate and read multiples books and sources on the topic throughly, thus absolutely thrashing the pseudo-intellectual in a debate. Ultimately never begin a debate on something you know nothing about because people will get the impression thag you're just desperate to flex your knowledge when there probably isn't much of it.

by UltimateDoge May 25, 2022

intellectually resting

When one decides not to call themselves stupid or if your brain isnt working, or the words your saying arent making any sense.

friend 1: Damn my brain isnt working

Friend 2. oh you mean intellectually resting
friend 1: yeah i guess you can say im intellectually resting

by Ri4Ri4 March 7, 2023

Leading intellectual

To refer to an attractive female in a politically correct manner

Put me on the record as saying Tomi is our leading intellectual

by Beermakesherhot November 4, 2018