All 8 Uses of
intellectual
in
Oryx and Crake
- "Your friend is intellectually honourable," Jimmy's mother would say.†
p. 69.8intellectually = in a manner that relates to intelligence
- If only he could be like that — intellectually honourable.†
p. 69.9
- Had he been a lunatic or an intellectually honourable man who'd thought things through to their logical conclusion?†
p. 343.9 *
- Jimmy would do better at intellectual honourableness if only he would try harder.†
p. 70.1
- He had his doubts about Crake's honourableness, intellectual or otherwise.†
p. 70.3
- It must have got tired of the soul's constant nagging and whining and the anxiety-driven intellectual web-spinning of the mind, distracting it whenever it was getting its teeth into something juicy or its fingers into something good.†
p. 85.6
- With this kind of attrition going on — this erosion of its former intellectual territory — Martha Graham had found itself without a very convincing package to offer.†
p. 187.9
- They liked a dash of originality and risk-taking and intellectual rigour.†
p. 195.1
Definitions:
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(1)
(intellectual as in: intellectual stimulation) related to intelligence -- such as requiring, appealing to, or possessing intelligence
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(2)
(intellectual as in: She is an intellectual.) a highly educated person interested in learning and exploring ideas -- sometimes while ignoring practical considerations