unintelligent
/ˌʌnənˈtɛləd͡ʒənt/
unintelligent adjective: not intelligent.
Adjective
unintelligent (comparative more unintelligent, superlative most unintelligent)
- Not intelligent.
- "That young girl," he added unexpectedly, "is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting."1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 138
- Synonyms:
- addlebrained, addlepated, airheaded, bee-brained, beef-witted, soft, beefheaded, beetle-headed, birdbrained, blockheaded
unintelligent meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
unintelligent in Tamil
- அறிவிலி
unintelligent in Urdu
- بےعقل, جاہل, کند ذہن
unintelligent in Bengali
- unintelligent; brainless; lacking intellect or merit
- মেধাশূন্য medhaśunno
unintelligent in Malayalam
- ignorant, stupid, dense
- ബുദ്ധിയില്ലാത്ത, മന്ദബുദ്ധിയായ, മൂഢനായ, നിർബ്ബുദ്ധി, അകവി, അപ്രതിഭ
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- unintelligent in Sanskrit
- अज्ञान ajñāna, मूर्ख mūrkha, जल jala
Synonyms of unintelligent
- addlebrained
- addlepated
- airheaded
- bee-brained
- beef-witted
- soft
- beefheaded
- beetle-headed
- birdbrained
- blockheaded
30 more synonymsFewer synonyms
- Boeotian
- boneheaded
- boofheaded
- braindead
- brainless
- bubbleheaded
- buffle-headed
- bullet-headed
- cerebrally challenged
- childish
- chowderheaded
- chuckleheaded
- crackbrained
- cretinous
- daft
- dense
- dented
- dim-bulb
- dim-headed
- dim-witted
- dim
- doltish
- dopey
- dozy
- drowsy
- dull-headed
- dull-minded
- dull-witted
- dull
- dumber than a box of rocks
Forms of unintelligent
| comparative | more unintelligent |
|---|---|
| superlative | most unintelligent |
Origin of unintelligent
From un- + intelligent.
Words formed from unintelligent
Questions about unintelligent
- What does unintelligent mean?
- Unintelligent means not intelligent.
- What is unintelligent in Tamil?
- Unintelligent in Tamil is அறிவிலி. See Unintelligent meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is unintelligent?
- Unintelligent is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce unintelligent?
- Unintelligent is pronounced /ˌʌnənˈtɛləd͡ʒənt/ (US).
Words near unintelligent in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: unintelligent (page history and authors); unintelligent (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); unintelligent (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); মেধাশূন্য (Bengali) (page history and authors); unintelligent (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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