unintelligent

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   showing a limited ability to learn, understand, or reason

   It would be unfair to call her unintelligent simply because she lacks experience.

2. 2
   adj

   not able to process information or act independently through intelligence

   The basic sensor is unintelligent and merely reports a temperature.

Formed from un-, 'not,' and intelligent. Intelligent ultimately comes from Latin intellegere, 'to understand or discern.'

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