unintelligent
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Synonyms & Antonyms for unintelligent
Synonyms
airheaded, birdbrained, bonehead, boneheaded, brain-dead, brainless, bubbleheaded, chuckleheaded, dense, dim, dim-witted, doltish, dopey (also dopy), dorky [slang], dull, dumb, dunderheaded, empty-headed, fatuous, gormless [chiefly British], half-witted, knuckleheaded, lamebrain (or lamebrained), lunkheaded, mindless, oafish, obtuse, opaque, pinheaded, senseless, simple, slow, slow-witted, soft, softheaded, stupid, thick, thick-witted, thickheaded, unsmart, vacuous, weak-minded, witless
Antonyms
apt, brainy, bright, brilliant, clever, fast, hyperintelligent, intelligent, keen, nimble, quick, quick-witted, sharp, sharp-witted, smart, supersmart, ultrasmart
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But two recent shows contradict traditional tropes, interestingly enough, by going the other direction and bringing new life to another Asian archetype: the unintelligent Asian. — Rachel Yang, Teen Vogue, "Unintelligent Asians Are Smart for Television," 8 Aug. 2019 Now for your email: BIG BEN’S MISSTEP Ben Roethlisberger's life is littered with unintelligent steaming piles. — Peter King, SI.com, "On Saquon Barkley, Matt Millen and Readers’ Response to Monday Morning QB News," 9 May 2018 In fact, if people don’t merge with computers, humans may soon become an unintelligent species compared to the machine intelligence that will exist. — Zoltan Istvan, Newsweek, "Quantum Archaeology: The Quest to 3D Bioprint Every Dead Person Back to Life," 9 Mar. 2018 The viewing experience wasn’t cool at all — Chappelle’s perspective was just straight up unintelligent, harmful, and downright unnecessary. — Juliana Feliciano Reyes, Philly.com, "Why, for some, it's become harder to love the Grammy-winning Dave Chappelle," 30 Jan. 2018 AluNoir is emotionally unintelligent and emotionally immature. — Michael Harriot, The Root, "The Root’s Clapback Mailbag: Wypipo Be Tripping," 8 Dec. 2017 His character — obfuscating, unrepentant, defensive, rather unintelligent — is enough for one exhibit and should be treated in its own right. — Andrew Koenig, National Review, "Eichmann Revisited," 9 Sep. 2017 But a new study complicates the narrative that only unintelligent people are prejudiced. — Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, "How Intelligence Leads to Stereotyping," 29 July 2017 Corby’s jail was described in the Australian media as barbaric, the judges depicted as uninterested and unintelligent. — Kristen Gelineau, The Seattle Times, "How did a drug bust in Bali become an Australian obsession?," 19 May 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'unintelligent.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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