as in dumb
not having or showing an ability to absorb ideas readily you're not unintelligent, so you must just be stubbornly resisting all attempts to teach you something

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Recent Examples of unintelligent For example, Republicans and Democrats became more likely to view each other as closed-minded, dishonest, immoral, unintelligent and lazy between 2016 and 2022, according to a different Pew study based on responses from 6,174 adults. Journal Sentinel, 6 Mar. 2024 To me, though, these men seem crude or unintelligent, entitled and immature. Anna Holmes, The New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2024 The shift from being called fat and unintelligent to the smartest in the family added new pressures. Teshie Ogallo, Parents, 15 Jan. 2024 These communities were also more likely to believe in outdated stereotypes, like all cannabis users are lazy, dangerous, deviant or unintelligent. Niklas Kouparanis, Rolling Stone, 26 July 2023 See all Example Sentences for unintelligent 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unintelligent
Adjective
  • Ratajkowski has been fighting the stereotype of the dumb model from the beginning of her career.
    Daniel Jackson, Allure, 18 July 2017
  • Ninety nine percent of all NFL players are explicitly not dumb.
    Andy Benoit, The MMQB, 10 July 2017
Adjective
  • Give yourself permission to go see a truly stupid movie.
    Anya Jaremko-Greenwold, The Week US, theweek, 8 Nov. 2024
  • Among the show’s many, many, many Twilight Zone spoofs, this one is the funniest and the best, with a conclusion that’s equal parts brilliant and stupid.
    Joshua Kurp, Vulture, 4 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • However, Prince William wants to take things very slow for his wife to ease her back into normalcy.
    Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 22 Nov. 2024
  • However, even for a slow jog, that’s exactly what happened.
    Caleb Harris, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • Or that a different definition will make a theory simpler.
    Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 18 Nov. 2024
  • If peace has always been but a simple voluntary choice, the price of human imperfection has been paid in the coin of perpetual war.
    Henry A. Kissinger, Foreign Affairs, 18 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • Donald Trump, so ignorant of the past and so careless about the future, is a present-tense kind of candidate.
    Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Was an ancient reptile, for all intents and purposes a 15-million-year-old dinosaur, actually roaming this expanse of creosote scrub, subsisting on beavertail cactus flesh, going about her day ignorant of the weather alerts, the headlines, the untold human tragedies?
    Outside Online, Outside Online, 23 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • Therefore, don’t be surprised to see bucks bedding right on the edge of thick cover within some of the areas noted above.
    Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 22 Nov. 2024
  • In almost any Auerbach oil painting, early or late, rawness is thick on the ground.
    Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • The San Francisco 49ers would be foolish to trade Nick Bosa, but that's exactly what a California politician wants.
    Ryan Morik, Fox News, 30 Oct. 2024
  • The authors concluded that any attempt to create a synthetic substance to replace the mud — something Major League Baseball has explored — would be foolish.
    Evan Bush, NBC News, 4 Nov. 2024

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“Unintelligent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unintelligent. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.

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