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unintelligent

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of unintelligent

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.

Synonyms of unintelligent

brain-dead, brainless, dense, doltish, dopey (also dopy), dorky [slang], dull, dumb, fatuous, half-witted, mindless, oafish, obtuse, opaque, pinheaded, senseless, simple, slow, stupid, thick, thickheaded, vacuous, weak-minded, witless

Words Related to unintelligent

feebleminded, simpleminded

foolish, idiotic, imbecile (or imbecilic), moronic

ignorant, illiterate, lowbrow, uneducated, uninformed, unintellectual, untaught, unthinking

absurd, asinine, balmy, cockeyed, crackpot, crazy, cuckoo, daffy, daft, half-baked, harebrained, insane, kooky, loony (also looney), lunatic, mad, nonsensical, nutty, wacky, zany

Near Antonyms of unintelligent

ingenious, resourceful

acute, astute, discerning, insightful, keen, knowing, perceptive, sagacious, sage, sapient, savvy, wise

cerebral, erudite, highbrow, intellectual, knowledgeable, learned, literate, scholarly, thinking, well-read

crafty, cunning, foxy, shrewd, wily

judicious, prudent, sane, sensible, sound

Antonyms of unintelligent

apt, brainy, bright, brilliant, clever, fast, intelligent, keen, nimble, quick, quick-witted, sharp, sharp-witted, smart

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