unintellectual

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adjective

Not intellectual.

OriginEnglish intellectual ← Middle English un- ← Old English un- →
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Meanings

adjectiveunintellectual (comparative more unintellectual, superlative most unintellectual)

comparative more unintellectual · superlative most unintellectual

  1. Not intellectual.

    A middle-aged peasant woman of a very common and unintellectual appearance was busy blowing into a blaze some branches and sticks of wood under the coffee-kettle on the open hearth.

    1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 296
  2. Not requiring the use of the intellect.

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*né
  2. Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
  3. Proto-Germanic*un-
  4. Proto-West Germanic*un-
  5. Old Englishun-
  6. Middle Englishun-
  7. Englishun-
  8. Englishintellectual
  9. Englishunintellectual

From un- + intellectual.

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APA

unintellectual. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unintellectual

MLA

“unintellectual.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unintellectual. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unintellectual,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unintellectual.

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