Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having or displaying a lack of intelligence.
- adj. Not invested with intelligence.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Not intelligent.
- Not possessing or not proceeding from intelligence.
- Not knowing; not having acute mental faculties; not showing intelligence; dull.
Wiktionary
- adj. Not intelligent.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. lacking intelligence
Etymologies
- un- + intelligent (Wiktionary)
Examples
“In other words, would I ask someone who is unintelligent, which is clearly the case here, to assess the intellect of other people?”
Obama On Wright: "I Might Not Know Him As Well As I Thought"
“It is the rose's department; let the rose attend to it -- and be dubbed unintelligent because it baffles us by the miracles it works, and the unconcerned businesslike way in which it works them.”
“It is the rose's department; let the rose attend to it -- and be dubbed unintelligent because it baffles us by the miracles it works, and the unconcerned business-like way in which it works them.”
“In other words, if one can communicate well in one medium but not another, he or she should not be generally classified as unintelligent but, rather, just weak in that medium.”
“But whether the terebella be less intelligent than the amoeba or not, it does quite enough to establish its claim to intelligence of a higher order; and one does not see ground for the satisfaction which Dr. Carpenter appears to find at having, as it were, taken the taste of the amoeba's performance out of our mouth, by setting us about the less elaborate performance of the terebella, which he thinks we can call unintelligent and instinctive.”
“It is amazing how Sarah Palin, who by the left is the most "unintelligent" person in the world, can cause such a crazy amount of attention and get people so afraid of what she's doing next.”
“This is the fallacy that I was just explaining: Just because you eliminate one paricular "unintelligent" theory (like a summer breeze) does not mean you have eliminated a whole class of explanations!”
“And this idea that she is just "unintelligent" which means she isn't really stupid, just uninformed, is breathtaking bullshit.”
“And this idea that she is just "unintelligent" ...”
“The physical mechanics of life and evolution are not necessarily "unintelligent" just because they primarily operate on sub-conscious levels.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘unintelligent’.
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abandon, abandonment, abnormally, abstract, abstraction, abstractly, abstracts, academia, academic, academically, academics, academies and 3119 more...
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Just not to bright
words describing people or things that just aren't very intelligent
galah, idiot, simpleton, dufus, dummy, stupid, moron, moronic, idiocy, dimwit, special, on the short bus and 10 more...
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Un-word List
untrammelled, untoward, unenthusiastically, unenthusiastic, undaunted, uncanny, unceasing, unbridled, unacknowledged, unacquainted, unadorned, unaffected and 239 more...
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