INTELLECTS Synonyms: 73 Similar and Opposite Words

intellects

noun

plural of intellect

as in geniuses

a very smart person one of the finest intellects of our time

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Recent Examples of intellects Women are compelled to suppress their desires, intellects, and emotions in Gilead. — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 29 Apr. 2026 While the likes of Philo and Trotter have expanded upon the idea by prioritizing people whose intellects align with their brand values, Jacquemus takes it to another level. — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 23 Jan. 2026

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In their place are flawed geniuses and idiosyncratic personalities thrust together in the dregs of intelligence services, operating like a dysfunctional family under its disreputable patriarch.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 17 Aug. 2026
Broadly speaking, these kinds of stories — powered by a stop-them-before-they-kill-again clock, making their antagonists out to be finicky geniuses or horror movie monsters instead of opportunistic mediocrities — strike me as a low form of fiction.

— Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2026

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If physical gestures serve our relatives just fine, why did our own branch of the family tree gradually favor biological changes in our brains and anatomy that permitted our characteristic complexities in language and precision in speech?

— Mike McRae September 02, New Atlas, 3 Sep. 2026
Neuralink has implanted wireless chips in the brains of roughly a dozen people, enabling patients paralyzed by spinal cord injuries to control computers with their thoughts.

— Alexei Oreskovic, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2026

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This coexistence of one god and many gods may initially appear contradictory, but a clearer picture emerges by tracing the history of how Hindu texts, traditions, and thinkers—and some Western scholars—have answered this question.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 28 Aug. 2026
But alongside serious thinkers such as Rankine, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and Saidiya Hartman, less rigorous writers and ideas were also elevated.

— Charles Finch, The Atlantic, 28 Aug. 2026

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