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intellectually en · ADV

Pronunciation

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Etymology

Etymology tree English intellectual Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English intellectually From intellectual + -ly.

Meanings

1. In an intellectual manner.
   • Nevertheless intellectually, ideologically and politically he identified with industrialists whom he, just like Smith, saw as the usherers of progress. 2002, Yanis Varoufakis, Foundations of Economics: A Beginner's Companion, page 25:
   • And just because the intellectuals are mostly intellectually honest it is inevitable that they should follow their own convictions whenever they have discretion and that they should give a corresponding slant to everything that passes through their hand. 1949, F. A. Hayek, “The Intellectuals and Socialism”, in University of Chicago Law Review, volume 16, number 3, Chicago: University of Chicago, →DOI, page 421:

Forms

Deriveds

intellectually challenged · intellectually disabled

Translations (12)

de intellektuell (in an intellectual manner) · da intellektuelt (in an intellectual manner) · hu intellektuálisan (in an intellectual manner) · hu értelmileg (in an intellectual manner) · pl intelektualnie (in an intellectual manner) · es intelectualmente (in an intellectual manner) · ca intel·lectualment (in an intellectual manner) · sv intellektuellt (in an intellectual manner) · fi älyllisesti (in an intellectual manner) · lv intelektuāli (in an intellectual manner) · it intellettualmente (in an intellectual manner) · fr intellectuellement (in an intellectual manner)