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unintellectual
adjective as in dull
adjective as in ignorant
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- apprenticed
- benighted
- birdbrained
- blind to
- cretinous
- dense
- green
- imbecilic
- in the dark
- inexperienced
- insensible
- mindless
- misinformed
- moronic
- nescient
- shallow
- thick
- unconscious
- unconversant
- uncultivated
- uncultured
- unenlightened
- uninitiated
- unknowledgeable
- unlearned
- unlettered
- unmindful
- unread
- unschooled
- unsuspecting
- untaught
- untrained
- unwitting
- witless
adjective as in nescient
Weak matches
- apprenticed
- benighted
- birdbrained
- blind to
- cretinous
- dense
- green
- illiterate
- imbecilic
- in the dark
- inexperienced
- innocent
- insensible
- mindless
- misinformed
- moronic
- naive
- oblivious
- obtuse
- shallow
- thick
- unconscious
- unconversant
- uncultivated
- uncultured
- uneducated
- unenlightened
- uninformed
- uninitiated
- uninstructed
- unknowledgeable
- unlearned
- unlettered
- unmindful
- unread
- unschooled
- unsuspecting
- untaught
- untrained
- unwitting
- witless
adjective as in uninstructed
Weak matches
- apprenticed
- benighted
- birdbrained
- blind to
- cretinous
- dense
- green
- illiterate
- imbecilic
- in the dark
- inexperienced
- innocent
- insensible
- mindless
- misinformed
- moronic
- naive
- nescient
- oblivious
- obtuse
- shallow
- thick
- unconscious
- unconversant
- uncultivated
- uncultured
- uneducated
- unenlightened
- uninformed
- uninitiated
- unknowledgeable
- unlearned
- unlettered
- unmindful
- unread
- unschooled
- unsuspecting
- untaught
- untrained
- unwitting
- witless
adjective as in unscholarly
Weak matches
- apprenticed
- benighted
- birdbrained
- blind to
- cretinous
- dense
- green
- illiterate
- imbecilic
- in the dark
- inexperienced
- innocent
- insensible
- mindless
- misinformed
- moronic
- naive
- nescient
- oblivious
- obtuse
- shallow
- thick
- unconscious
- unconversant
- uncultivated
- uncultured
- uneducated
- unenlightened
- uninformed
- uninitiated
- unknowledgeable
- unlearned
- unlettered
- unmindful
- unread
- unschooled
- unstudious
- unsuspecting
- untaught
- untrained
- unwitting
- witless
Example Sentences
The only one worse for smart Velma to date than Shaggy might be the decidedly unintellectual, conspiracy theory-believing Fred.
He instead described himself as “an unintellectual feeler” and an “immersive actor” during a sprawling conversation about acting, spirituality and his conversion with Bishop Robert Barron, the former Auxiliary Bishop of Los Angeles and founder of the Word on Fire ministry.
"Perhaps it is well that Negroes try to be as unintellectual as possible, for if they ever started really thinking about what happened to them, they'd go wild. And perhaps that is the secret of whites who want to believe that Negroes really have no memory; for if they thought that Negroes remembered they would start out to shoot them all in sheer self-defense."
Yet Homer isn't really a person; like all TV characters, he is an archetype and a stand-in for a certain breed of American male — a middle-class, unintellectual, aging, TV-addled, dopey blue collar white guy.
As a large, dark-skinned Black man coming of age in the 1950s and ’60s, he felt sorely underestimated — he sensed that white America instinctively considered him inelegant and unintellectual.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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