UNINTELLIGENT Synonyms: 162 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 For example, Republicans and Democrats became more likely to view each other as closed-minded, dishonest, immoral, unintelligent and lazy between 2016 and 2022, according to a different Pew study based on responses from 6,174 adults. —

Journal Sentinel, 6 Mar. 2024 To me, though, these men seem crude or unintelligent, entitled and immature. —

Anna Holmes, The New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2024 The shift from being called fat and unintelligent to the smartest in the family added new pressures. —

Teshie Ogallo, Parents, 15 Jan. 2024 These communities were also more likely to believe in outdated stereotypes, like all cannabis users are lazy, dangerous, deviant or unintelligent. —

Niklas Kouparanis, Rolling Stone, 26 July 2023 See all Example Sentences for unintelligent

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Ratajkowski has been fighting the stereotype of the dumb model from the beginning of her career.

Daniel Jackson, Allure, 18 July 2017
Ninety nine percent of all NFL players are explicitly not dumb.

Andy Benoit, The MMQB, 10 July 2017