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Definition: Unintelligent |
UnintelligentAdjective1. Without much intelligence; "a dull job with lazy and unintelligent co-workers". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "unintelligent" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1611. (references) |
Synonym: UnintelligentSynonym: stupid (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: intelligent (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Imbecility Folly | Adjective: unintelligent, unintellectual, unreasoning; mindless, witless, reasoningless, brainless; halfbaked; having no head; not -bright; inapprehensible. |
Smallness | Dull, petty, shallow, stolid, ungifted, unintelligent. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Unintelligent |
| English words defined with "unintelligent": Mobocrat ♦ showing lack of intelligence, stupid ♦ unintelligently. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "unintelligent": FOOL ♦ Hare. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Unintelligent" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. German (unintelligent). |
| Author | Quotation |
Arthur Schopenhauer | The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Life, the Universe and Everything | Douglas Adams | That young girl, he added unexpectedly, "is one of the least benightedly unintelligent life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting. |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | Not seldom, she would laugh anew, and louder than before, like a thing incapable and unintelligent of human sorrow |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Unintelligent" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unintelligent" is used about 30 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 30 | 63,341 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "unintelligent": not unintelligent. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
unintelligent | 9 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "unintelligent"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | jo i mençur, i paedukuar (dark, ignoramus, ill bred, ill mannered, illiberal, indocile, inurbane, mannerless, rude, uneducated, unenlightened, unlearned, unmannerly, unnurtured, unschooled, untaught, untrained, untutored, without cultural interests). (various references) | |
Arabic | متهزر, غير ذكي, غبي (asinine, dense, dick, dim witted, drip, dull, dullard, empty headed, fathead, jerk, lacking, lunatic, moronic, opaque, patsy, plonker, sap, slow witted, soppy, stupid, thick, thick-headed, thickish, thick-witted, tomfool, twerp, uncivil, wooden), سطحي (cursory, exterior, external, facile, frothy, perfunctory, peripheral, primary, shallow-minded, sketchy, skin deep, slight, superficial, surface, unexperienced). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | глупав (anserine, asinine, blackhearted, blithering, blockish, blunt, brainless, cockscomb, crass, daft, dense, dim witted, dopey, dopy, dozy, fat, fatuous, flat-footed, fool, foolish, footless, footling, goofy, hebetate, inane, inept, irrational, lame brain, lumpish, lunatic, mindless, mutton-headed, nonsensical, off one's nut, piffling, puddingy, puerile, purblind, sappy, senseless, silly, simple, slow witted, stockish, stupid, thick, thick-skulled, thick-witted, tomfool, trumpery, unwise, vacant, vacuous, whacked, witless, wooden-headed), неинтелегентен. (various references) | |
Czech | nepříliš inteligentní, neinteligentní. (various references) | |
Farsi | کودن (Backward, Birdbrain, Cockeyed, Crass, Doddering, Dull, Dunce, Lug, Sappy, Slight, Slow, Unapt), بیهوش (Comatose), بی استعداد (Inapt). (various references) | |
Finnish | huonopäinen (not bright), älytön. (various references) | |
French | inintelligent. (various references) | |
German | nicht intelligent. (various references) | |
Hungarian | unintelligens. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | intelligentunay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pouco inteligente, ininteligente (unwise), ignorante (artless, benighted, dunce, heathen, ignoramus, ignorant, know-nothing, letterless, nescient, unacquainted, unaware, unconscious, uneducated, unenlightened, uninformed, unlearned, unlettered, unnurtured, unposted, unschooled, untaught, untutored, unversed), estúpido (addle-brained, addled, ass, blockhead, blockish, blunderer, blunderhead, boeotian, booby, bovine, chuckle-head, chump, crass, dense, dim-witted, dolt, dull, dumb, dunce, dunderhead, fat-head, fatuous, featherbrained, fool, foolish, goofy, jolterhead, lubber, lubber-head, lubberly, lumpish, mindless, mutton-head, mutton-headed, numskull, oafish, obtuse, pigheaded, silly, slow, stock, stupe, stupid, thick-headed, thick-skulled, thick-witted, vacuous), de espírito limitado. (various references) | |
Russian | неумный (dim-witted). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | neinteligentan (unapprehensive, unintelligible), glup (anserine, asinine, brainless, calvish, cloddish, dense, dozy, dull, dumb, fat-witted, jerk, obtuse, sheepish, silly, stupid). (various references) | |
Swedish | ointelligent. (various references) | |
Turkish | zeki olmayan, akılsız (buggy, bughouse, emptyheaded, fatuous, feather brain, feather-brained, fool, foolish, goofy, gormless, ill-advised, inexpedient, irrational, mindless, preposterous, unreasoning, unwise, vacant, witless). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tối dạ (dull), không thông minh. (various references) | |
Welsh | anneallus (lacking in understanding). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "unintelligent": unintelligently. (additional references) | |
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"Unintelligent" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: unitelligent. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-g-i-i-l-l-n-n-n-t-t-u" | |
-2 letters: intelligent. | |
-3 letters: tunnelling. | |
-4 letters: entitling, inletting, telneting, tunneling. | |
-5 letters: glutelin, intitule, linguine, nettling, ungentle. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-g-i-i-l-l-n-n-n-t-t-u" | |
+2 letters: unintelligently. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Quotations: Familiar | 5. Quotations: Fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Anagrams 12. Bibliography |
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