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# unintelligent

«unintelligent» in Mova's school dictionary: **Not clever; not showing good thinking or understanding** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (unintelligent)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Not clever; not showing good thinking or understanding. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unintelligent/#m1)

2) (of a choice or action) Not sensible. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unintelligent/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Used in formal or polite writing instead of rude words. In stories, a character may make an unintelligent decision. It is a judgement about thinking, and calling a person unintelligent is unkind.

### examples

- It was an unintelligent move to leave the door unlocked. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unintelligent/#x1)
- Robots in old films seemed unintelligent and clumsy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unintelligent/#x2)
- Don't call anyone unintelligent; everyone learns at their own pace. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unintelligent/#x3)
- Copying the wrong answers was unintelligent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unintelligent/#x4)
- The plan was not unintelligent, just unlucky. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unintelligent/#x5)
- Some people wrongly think animals are unintelligent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unintelligent/#x6)

### note

Takes «an». Ruder everyday words exist (stupid, thick); all are unkind about people. Not the same as «ignorant» (not knowing something). Opposite: intelligent, clever.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «unintelligent» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unintelligent/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.