subintellectual
nounEtymology From sub- + intellectual.
1
A person who is less intelligent than an intellectual.
subintellectual
adjEtymology From sub- + intellectual.
1
Below the level of the intellect.
- Even if, later on, she was able to examine and analyze certain aspects of popular culture (as in “Notes on Camp,” 1964), she could undertake such a thing only in service to a higher goal — she was immune to subintellectual cultural pleasures.2009 February 1, Luc Sante, “Sontag: The Precocious Years”, in New York Times: