Someone who pontificates about subjects (especially science, especially climate change) in the pub (or, even more likely, the golf club), while having no idea what they're on about. Typically to be found drinking gin and tonic, wearing a blazer, calling people "squire", playing golf, and driving a Jaaaaaaag.
"All this global warming nonsense. The Romans grew grapes in Yorkshire! Explain that!"
"You're right, Ken. Several thousand climatologists and many petabytes of hard evidence can't stand up to a single well-informed gintellectual."
"You're right, Ken. Several thousand climatologists and many petabytes of hard evidence can't stand up to a single well-informed gintellectual."
by sTeamTraen July 13, 2012
Get the Gintellectual mug.The politically correct term for "mentally retarded." It became more widespread after the word "retard", originally used to describe a person who legitimately has an abnormally low IQ, was gradually used more and more as a pejorative term for people who suffer from developmental disorders.
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Get the Intellectually Disabled mug.by Ravchick23 June 22, 2006
Get the intellectular mug.The opposite of an Intellectual; someone who lacks common sense and even basic knowledge of anything.
Chris: Have you seen that new guy, William around?
Steven: No.
Chris: Good, he's a bit untellectual most of the time.
Steven: No.
Chris: Good, he's a bit untellectual most of the time.
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Get the Untellectual mug.Bullshit. If you try to describe it, you're technically practicing it. It's just a stupid infinite loophole of edginess.
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Get the Intellectualism mug.An individual who appears to be intelligent, but having intellect that is only directly attributed to the Internet; often these individuals are totally unaware of how transparent their "smarts" are.
"Don't believe everything Steve says, it's probably just something off the Web. He may seem smart, but he's just a dumb-ass Internectual."
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Get the Internectual mug.1. Non-intellectuals who can at least keep up the appearance for fifteen minutes.
2. Cop-out postmodernists.
3. Critics.
2. Cop-out postmodernists.
3. Critics.
...After fifteen minutes over coffee discussing the qualities of Emerson's work as being original, he screamed in desperation: "There is nothing left to be original about! There is nothing original left! I see no value in anything because everything has already been thought!" He then made an effort to point out the flaws in a friend's poem and how she could improve it with synonyms and left in silence.
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