unintelligent

Adjective

Meaning

lacking intelligence

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

stupid daft simple half-baked slow thick dense vacant dull crazy ignorant dim foolish silly dumb
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Antonyms

intelligent sound intellectual logical sharp quick
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Phrases with the word

less unintelligent unintelligent person more unintelligent unintelligent woman

Examples

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him. Arthur Schopenhauer

That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting. Douglas Adams

Usually this desire [for family limitation] has been laid to economic pressure It has asserted itself among the rich and among the poor, among the intelligent and the unintelligent. It has been manifested in such horrors as infanticide, child abandonment and abortion. Margaret Sanger

Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment. Laozi

Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat. Ernest Bevin

Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves. Honoré de Balzac

Close letter words and terms

unintellectualized unintellectually unintelligence unintelligent person unintelligent woman unintelligently