UNINTELLIGENT Synonyms: 161 Similar and Opposite Words

unintelligent

adjective

ˌən-in-ˈte-lə-jənt

as in dumb

not having or showing an ability to absorb ideas readily you're not unintelligent, so you must just be stubbornly resisting all attempts to teach you something

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Recent Examples of unintelligent Even today, there are many settings in which the Christian faith is considered absurd, meant for the weak and unintelligent. —

Daniel Burke, NPR, 9 May 2025 The show and its participants were even parodied on Saturday Night Live in January, with comedian Ego Nwodim playing Amuli, and other cast members mocking people’s poor conversation skills and unintelligent dating decisions. —

Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 10 Apr. 2025 Google had to re-edit a Super Bowl ad for its artificial intelligence (AI) tool Gemini because the original ad had Gemini seeming artificially unintelligent. —

Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 7 Feb. 2025 Participants hesitated almost three times as long to switch off an intelligent and agreeable robot (34.5 seconds) compared to an unintelligent and non agreeable robot (11.8 seconds). —

IEEE Spectrum, 31 Jan. 2013 See All Example Sentences for unintelligent

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And then quite a bit of dumb bits, like really dumb bits.

— Eric Ducker, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2026
The multi-vehicle pile-up that ensues might go even dumber than a Rusko drop, yet there’s no escaping the anxiety that remains in the static hiss that closes the track.

— James Gui, Pitchfork, 6 Feb. 2026