unintellectual
Lacking mental depth
Unintellectual describes someone or something lacking in intellectual quality or interest.
An unintellectual person shows little curiosity about ideas or abstract thought: He was pleasant but thoroughly unintellectual.
The word can also describe pursuits or environments: an unintellectual workplace, unintellectual entertainment.
It's milder than anti-intellectual, suggesting absence rather than hostility toward intellectual life.
Lacking depth or substance
- vapidDull, without depth
- trivialLacking significance or weight
- frivolousNot worthy of attention
- shallowWithout much depth
vacuous · empty-headed · lightweight · unreflective · mindless · inane · jejune · banal
Lacking refinement or complexity
- simpleFree of complexity
- basicFundamental in nature
- rudimentaryIn simplest possible form
- crudeUnpolished, raw state
primitive · unrefined · plain · uncomplicated · simple-minded · dull · obtuse · slow
Lacking knowledge or awareness
- uneducatedLacking formal instruction
- unlearnedLacking acquired knowledge
- unschooledLacking formal instruction
- untutoredWithout formal instruction
illiterate · unread · unknowledgeable · unenlightened · benighted · uninstructed · inexperienced · uninitiated
superficial
Lacking depth or substance
shallow · vacuous · empty-headed · lightweight · unreflective · mindless · inane · jejune · banal · incurious
unsophisticated
Lacking refinement or complexity
- simpleFree of complexity
- basicFundamental in nature
- rudimentaryIn simplest possible form
crude · primitive · unrefined · plain · uncomplicated · simple-minded · dull · obtuse · slow · dim
ignorant
Lacking knowledge or awareness
- uneducatedLacking formal instruction
- unlearnedLacking acquired knowledge
- unschooledLacking formal instruction
untutored · illiterate · unread · unknowledgeable · unenlightened · benighted · uninstructed · inexperienced · uninitiated · unversed
unintellectualintelligent
Having mental acuity
brilliant · thoughtful · analytical · reflective · sharp-minded
intelligent, intelligence, intellectual, intellect, unintelligent, intelligible, intelligentsia, intelligibly, intellectualism