Synonyms for unintellectual
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : in-tl-ek-choo-uhl |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˌɪn tlˈɛk tʃu əl |
Top 10 synonyms for unintellectual Other synonyms for the word unintellectual
- apprenticed
- backward
- benighted
- besotted
- birdbrained
- blind to
- brainless
- cretinous
- daffy
- daft
- dense
- dim-witted
- doltish
- feeble-minded
- green
- half-baked
- ignorant
- illiterate
- imbecilic
- in the dark
- indolent
- inexperienced
- innocent
- insensate
- insensible
- mindless
- misinformed
- moronic
- naive
- nescient
- not bright
- numskulled
- oblivious
- obtuse
- scatterbrained
- shallow
- simple-minded
- stolid
- thick
- unconscious
- unconversant
- uncultivated
- uncultured
- uneducated
- unenlightened
- uninformed
- uninitiated
- uninstructed
- unintellectual
- unknowledgeable
- unlearned
- unlettered
- unmindful
- unread
- unschooled
- unstudious
- unsuspecting
- untaught
- untrained
- unwitting
- vacuous
- wearisome
- witless
Définition of unintellectual
Origin :- late 14c., "grasped by the understanding" (rather than by the senses), from Old French intellectuel and directly from Latin intellectualis "relating to the understanding," from intellectus "discernment, understanding," from past participle stem of intelligere "to understand, discern" (see intelligence). Intellectual property attested from 1845. Other adjective formations included intellective (late 15c.), intellectile (1670s).
- As in nescient : adj ignorant
- As in uninstructed : adj ignorant
- As in unscholarly : adj ignorant
- As in dull : adj unintelligent
- As in ignorant : adj unaware, unknowing
- The round face and eyes present a heavy, unintellectual expression.
- Extract from : « A Life of William Shakespeare » by Sidney Lee
- How unintellectual, how uncivilised, such a scene, and such actors!
- Extract from : « Godolphin, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- At Cambridge he had got into a fast, though not an unintellectual, set.
- Extract from : « The Love Affairs of Lord Byron » by Francis Henry Gribble
- I thought you scorned it, considered it an unintellectual game.
- Extract from : « The Man Upstairs » by P. G. Wodehouse
- St. Ives is unintellectual and except as an adventure novel, dull.
- Extract from : « Vailima Letters » by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Some were conservative, or backward, or unintellectual compared with others.
- Extract from : « A History of Freedom of Thought » by John Bagnell Bury
- The non-talker has no taste for such an unintellectual exercise.
- Extract from : « My Lady Nicotine » by J. M. Barrie
- Be this as it may, with pure, unintellectual, brutal evil it is very different.
- Extract from : « Lectures on Art » by Washington Allston
- "Farming is such an unintellectual subject," I heard a critical young woman say to her husband, whose tastes were bucolic.
- Extract from : « The Business of Being a Woman » by Ida M. Tarbell
- The walls can be covered now almost as cheaply with intellectual pictures as with unintellectual wall paper.
- Extract from : « Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 » by Edward William Cole
Antonyms for unintellectual
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