Usually means: Hostility towards intellectuals and scholarship.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word anti-intellectual:

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  1. anti-intellectual: Merriam-Webster
  2. anti-intellectual: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. anti-intellectual: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. anti-intellectual: Vocabulary.com
  5. anti-intellectual: Wordnik
  6. anti-intellectual: Wiktionary
  7. anti-intellectual: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. anti-intellectual: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. anti-intellectual: Dictionary.com
  10. Anti-intellectual: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. anti-intellectual: Rhymezone
  12. anti-intellectual: FreeDictionary.org
  13. anti-intellectual: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. anti-intellectual: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. anti-intellectual: Merriam-Webster

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  1. anti-intellectual: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (anti-intellectual)

▸ adjective:  Hostile to intellectual thinking methods or ideas.
▸ noun:  A person who scorns intellectuals and their views and methods.

Similar:
nonintellectual, Philistine, antiintellectual, antiwhite, intolerant, culturist, anticultural, antirational, anti-White, get-off-my-lawn, more...

Opposite:
intellectual, pro-intellectual, academic, scholarly

Types:
anti-science, anti-vaxxer, conspiracy theorist, flat-earther, creationist, holistic healer, anti-education, more...

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Similar:
nonintellectual, Philistine, antiintellectual, antiwhite, intolerant, culturist, anticultural, antirational, anti-White, get-off-my-lawn, more...

Opposite:
intellectual, pro-intellectual, academic, scholarly

Types:
anti-science, anti-vaxxer, conspiracy theorist, flat-earther, creationist, holistic healer, anti-education, more...



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