unintelligent
unintelligent
Definition
un·in·tel·li·gent (-in tel′i jənt)
adjective
having or showing a lack or deficiency of intelligence
- unintegrated
un′·in·tel′·li·gence noun
un′·in·tel′·li·gently adverb
unintelligent
Synonyms
unintelligent
Usage Examples
Modifies a noun
- people: There was no effect of a beneficial replacement of passive unintelligent people by active intelligent ones.
- way: Q5 There are times when somebody is acting in an unintelligent way, or behaving in an unacceptable or even antisocial fashion.
- comment: Rex's associates indulge in a second spate of unintelligent comments on the current political situation, two years after we first heard them.
- man: Gordon Brown, being not an unintelligent man, must surely know this.
- opinion: The difference is that his views are considered wrong while your unintelligent ill-conceived opinions are fashionable in this politically correct world.
- force: There could be multiple uncaused causes -- multiple gods, say -- or the uncaused cause could be an unintelligent, impersonal force.
Modifying Another Word
- emotionally: Indeed, some people say it is the one single thing that most differentiates the emotionally intelligent from the emotionally unintelligent.
- so: And how did our capital get so unintelligent in the first place?
- not: Now she's not unintelligent, but i think she rather missed the point Tim and friends are trying to make!
- quite: Quite the opposite goes for some apparently quite unintelligent things like cleaning the house, digging the garden or making a cup of tea.
- very: The vast majority of posts here are very unintelligent.
- relatively: In some group contexts, this could, I think, represent an intelligent usage of a relatively unintelligent technology.
Browse dictionary entries near unintelligent
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- uninhabitable
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- uninfluenced
- unincorporated
- unimproved
