UN-INTELLIGENT Synonyms: 161 Similar and Opposite Words

unintelligent

adjective

ˌən-in-ˈte-lə-jənt

Definition of unintelligent

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 More and more people are avoiding dating or befriending those with opposing political views, and growing numbers describe those on the other side as closed-minded, dishonest, immoral and unintelligent. — Justin Callais, Chicago Tribune, 2 Mar. 2026 Still, Hassett called the report biased and unintelligent. — Jake Angelo, Fortune, 18 Feb. 2026 And not because people are unintelligent — quite the opposite. — Jj Rosen, Nashville Tennessean, 20 Nov. 2025 The life of an unattractive and unintelligent young woman living in a dreary backwater in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. — New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for unintelligent

Recent Examples of Synonyms for unintelligent

Adjective

Still crazy enough to do something dumb, but mature enough to curb your impulses.

— Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 20 July 2026
Instead of the Tech Right making the conservative movement smarter, the conservative movement seemed to be making the Tech Right dumber.

— Gilad Edelman, The Atlantic, 19 July 2026

Definition of dumb

Adjective

There are plenty of videos from Yellowstone National Park involving tourists doing breathtakingly stupid things around wild animals.

— Amber Harding OutKick, FOXNews.com, 12 July 2026
Even when Romanzy goes off on how stupid and ugly Caleb is — and gossips that his parents abandoned him because something must be wrong with him — Mary goes along with it.

— Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 11 July 2026

Definition of stupid

Adjective

After the shooting, the victim’s car was seen on surveillance footage driving in slow circles as federal agents appeared to try and stop the vehicle.

— Nicki Brown, CNN Money, 18 July 2026
Thus far, capital markets more broadly have been slow to respond to this threat for a variety of reasons.

— Justin Worland, Time, 18 July 2026

Definition of slow

Adjective

And that’s a lot of energy to shed as a vehicle comes blaring back into Earth’s thick atmosphere, a process that typically annihilates objects returning from space unless they are precisely designed to survive the trip.

— Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 16 July 2026
The water drew back from the house, left a thick, stinking silt across the floor.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 July 2026