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Definition of "unintelligent" []

  • Having or displaying a lack of intelligence. (adjective)
  • Not invested with intelligence. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "unintelligent" in a sentence
  • "In other words, would I ask someone who is unintelligent, which is clearly the case here, to assess the intellect of other people?"
  • "It is the rose's department; let the rose attend to it -- and be dubbed unintelligent because it baffles us by the miracles it works, and the unconcerned businesslike way in which it works them."
  • "It is the rose's department; let the rose attend to it -- and be dubbed unintelligent because it baffles us by the miracles it works, and the unconcerned business-like way in which it works them."