unintellectual

/ ˌʌnɪntɪˈlɛktʃʊəl /

adjective

1. not expressing or enjoying mental activity
2. not appealing to people with a developed intellect

Example Sentences

The only one worse for smart Velma to date than Shaggy might be the decidedly unintellectual, conspiracy theory-believing Fred.

From Salon

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.

From Los Angeles Times

"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."

From Salon

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.

From Salon

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.

From New York Times

Related Words

• illiterate
• innocent
• naive
• oblivious
• obtuse
• uneducated
• uninformed