Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Having or displaying a lack or small amount of intelligence.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not intelligent.
  • Not possessing or not proceeding from intelligence.
  • Not knowing; not having acute mental faculties; not showing intelligence; dull.

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  • adjective Not intelligent.

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  • adjective lacking intelligence

Etymologies

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un- +‎ intelligent

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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" 2009

  • 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.

    Erewhon; or, Over the range 1910

  • 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.

    Erewhon Samuel Butler 1868

  • 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.

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  • 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.

    Life and Habit Samuel Butler 1868

  • 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.

    Palin: Don't trust media reports about book 2009

  • 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!

    Bunny and a Book 2008

  • 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!

    Bunny and a Book 2008

  • And this idea that she is just "unintelligent" which means she isn't really stupid, just uninformed, is breathtaking bullshit.

    Election Central Saturday Roundup 2009

  • And this idea that she is just "unintelligent" ...

    Election Central Saturday Roundup 2009

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