Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1821 (adj.), from anti- + intellectual. As a noun meaning "an anti-intellectual person" from 1913.
Wiktionary
a. indifferent or hostile to cultural or intellectual ideas
WordNet
adj. smug and ignorant and indifferent or hostile to artistic and cultural values [syn: philistine]
Usage examples of "anti-intellectual".
It was the same sleep-deprived night, during which Paul had dreamed of anti-intellectual pogroms, that Patina had a significant dream of her own.
An intellectual, a maverick, and a warrior in a service that was increasingly anti-intellectual, conformist, and bureaucratized, he thought of himself as the token exception in what was turning into The Corporate Navy.
Despite the crapehangers, romanticists, and anti-intellectuals, the world steadily grows better because the human mind, applying itself to environment, makes it better.
Throw in a depression for good measure, promise a material heaven here on earth, add a dash of anti-Semitism, anti-Catholicism, antiNegroism, and a good large dósè of anti-”furriners” in general and anti-intellectuals here at home and the result might be something quite frightening—particularly when one recalls that our voting system is such that a minority distributed as pluralities in enough states can constitute a working majority in Washington.