Opposite word to intelligent

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1. intelligentadjective

   Antonyms:
   stupid

2. intelligentadjective

   Antonyms:
   stupid

3. intelligentadjective

   Antonyms:
   stupid

4. intelligentadjective

   My girlfriend and I had an intelligent conversation.

   Antonyms:
   stupid

5. intelligentadjective

   The hunt for intelligent life.

   Antonyms:
   stupid

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1. intelligent

   Clever, as used in England, especially implies an aptitude for study or learning, and for excellent tho not preeminent mental achievement. The early New England usage as implying simple and weak good nature has largely affected the use of the word throughout the United States, where it has never been much in favor. Smart, indicating dashing ability, is now coming to have a suggestion of unscrupulousness, similar to that of the word sharp, which makes its use a doubtful compliment. The discriminating use of such words as able, gifted, talented, etc., is greatly preferable to an excessive use of the word clever. Compare ACUMEN; ASTUTE; POWER.

   Antonyms:
   awkward, bungling, clumsy, dull, foolish, idiotic, ignorant, senseless, slow, stupid, thick-headed, witless

   Synonyms:
   able, adroit, apt, bright, capable, clever, dexterous, expert, gifted, happy, ingenious, intellectual, keen, knowing, quick, quick-witted, sharp, skilful, smart, talented

Princeton’s WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. intelligentadjective

   having the capacity for thought and reason especially to a high degree

   «is there intelligent life in the universe?»; «an intelligent question»

   Antonyms:
   naive, naif, unintelligent, unreasonable, irrational, brainless, stupid, headless

   Synonyms:
   thinking(a), healthy, sound, levelheaded, reasoning(a), level-headed, well-informed

2. intelligent, well-informedadjective

   possessing sound knowledge

   «well-informed readers»

   Antonyms:
   brainless, unintelligent, naive, naif, irrational, headless, unreasonable, stupid

   Synonyms:
   sound, well-informed, thinking(a), healthy, reasoning(a), level-headed, levelheaded

3. healthy, intelligent, levelheaded, level-headed, soundadjective

   exercising or showing good judgment

   «healthy scepticism»; «a healthy fear of rattlesnakes»; «the healthy attitude of French laws»; «healthy relations between labor and management»; «an intelligent solution»; «a sound approach to the problem»; «sound advice»; «no sound explanation for his decision»

   Antonyms:
   unreasonable, brainless, stupid, unintelligent, naive, irrational, headless, naif

   Synonyms:
   levelheaded, reasoning(a), good, salubrious, well-informed, sizable, sound, wakeless, well-grounded, sizeable, effectual, thinking(a), hefty, profound, healthy, heavy, reasoned, legal, respectable, goodly, goodish, level-headed, tidy, good for you(p)

4. intelligent, reasoning(a), thinking(a)adjective

   endowed with the capacity to reason

   Antonyms:
   unreasonable, unintelligent, headless, brainless, stupid, naif, naive, irrational

How to use intelligent in a sentence?

1. Carly Fiorina:

   Hillary Clinton’s a highly intelligent woman, hard-working, she’s dedicated her life to public service, but unfortunately, she does not have a track record of accomplishment or transparency. … She’s not the woman for the White House.

2. Lisa Goodpaster:

   Candy has always been very intelligent, and what one might refer to as a type A personality: very organized, very passionate and knew what she wanted, i think the Candy of today is still very much all of those things, but she has used these traits in a positive way to move herself forward, instead of working against herself and self-sabotaging. She now isn’t just as successful on the outside, as she always was, but her success is coming from a deeper place on the inside as well.

3. Cornelius Bernardus Van Neil:

   In essence, science is a perpetual search for an intelligent and integrated comprehension of the world we live in.

4. Leonard Mlodinow:

   Nothing projects intelligence quite like confidence. When you believe in yourself, it shows, and research shows that believing in yourself improves your performance on cognitive tasks. Self-doubt, on the other hand, impairs your performance. What’s worse is that other people pick up on this doubt, which makes you appear less intelligent to them. If you want people to believe in you, you have to believe in yourself. If you’re really smart, you should n’t have to use big words to broadcast it. True intelligence speaks for itself, so you don’t have to show off your impressive vocabulary. In addition, you always run the chance of being wrong. Using a big word incorrectly makes you look, well, not so smart. So, if you want to appear more intelligent, stop studying the dictionary and just focus on communicating effectively. Related : 8 Great Tricks for Reading People’s Body Language Communication expert Leonard Mlodinow makes the case that even if two people say exactly the same thing, the one who says it most expressively will be perceived as being smarter. If two speakers utter exactly the same words, but one speaks a little faster and louder and with fewer pauses and greater variation in volume, that speaker will be judged to be more energetic, knowledgeable, and intelligent.

5. Leopold Stein:

   To be intelligent is to be open-minded, active, memoried, and persistently experimental.

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