unintelligent
/ʌnɪnˈtɛlɪdʒ(ə)nt
/adjective
Having or showing a low level of intelligence: a good-natured but unintelligent boy...
- A foreign policy that speculates and spies on enemies from afar has given rise to unintelligent intelligence, a profound ignorance about what is going on in the world.
- Farm labourers [in the Vale of Gloucester] are sufficiently numerous; they are noticeable as being simple, inoffensive, unintelligent, and apparently slow.
- Would you want an intelligence agency too unintelligent to realise when information is unwelcome?
Synonyms
stupid, ignorant, dense, brainless, mindless, foolish, dull-witted, witless, slow, dunce-like, simple-minded, empty-headed, vacuous, vapid, half-witted, idiotic, moronic, imbecilic, imbecile, obtuse
informal thick, thick as two short planks, dim, dumb, dopey, dozy, cretinous, birdbrained, pea-brained, wooden-headed, fat-headed
Derivatives
unintelligence
- I won't further unintelligence by linking to the egregiously misnamed party with the bucks.
- I do not tolerate impertinence, nor unintelligence!
- He talks about her unintelligence when she is not around and has said that he went back to college so the relationship would ‘bleed out.’
unintelligently
- In the photographs that accompany the article, the rappers appear virtually indistinguishable from street thugs, with the sullen stare of the unintelligently angry.
- For memory, like everything else in the world, can be clumsily used, or unintelligently used, or used for false purposes or in bad faith.
- It is hateful, shameful and a disgrace to all when it is used unintelligently.