'Absence of intelligence (thinking faculty).'的English词汇
如您所见，上面显示了与"Absence of intelligence (thinking faculty)."相关的词汇。将鼠标悬停在想了解的词上可查看其定义。点击搜索图标可查找更匹配的词。感谢ChatGPT，整体结果已大幅改善。
搜索结果
adj
- lacking intelligence
- lacking or marked by lack of intellectual acuity
- in a state of mental numbness especially as resulting from shock
- (euphemistic, by association) Usually replaces an obscene or profane word, and thus is audibly stressed as such.
- (slang) Amazing.
- To the point of stupor.
- Unpleasant; annoying to the speaker. This sense can be used alongside obscene words.
- (of animates) Lacking in intelligence.
- Exhibiting the quality of having been done by someone lacking in intelligence.
- Dulled in feeling or sensation; torpid.
noun
adv
adj
- devoid of intelligence or thought
- lacking the thinking capacity characteristic of a conscious being
- Lacking a mind.
- requiring little mental effort
- not mindful or attentive
- not marked by the use of reason
- Showing a lack of forethought or sense.
- Having no sensible meaning or purpose.
- (of a thing done) Overly repetitive and unchallenging, not requiring any careful attention or providing any significant stimulation.
- Heedless.
adj
noun
adj
- marked by lack of intellectual depth
- having only superficial plausibility
- artfully persuasive in speech
- Snarky or unserious in a disrespectful way.
- Having a ready flow of words but lacking thought or understanding; superficial; shallow.
- Artfully persuasive but insincere in nature; smooth-talking, honey-tongued, silver-tongued.
noun
verb
noun
- Lack of sharpness of mind; lack of ability to think using complex ideas; stupidity
- The quality or state of being unmixed or uncompounded
- Lack of complication; efficiency.
- The quality or state of being not complex, or of consisting of few parts.
- Lack of subtlety or abstruseness; clarity
- Lack of artificial ornament, pretentious style, or luxury; plainness
- a lack of penetration or subtlety
- freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort
- lack of ornamentation
- the quality of being simple or uncompounded
- absence of affectation or pretense
adj
- deficient in intelligence or mental power
- tending downward in price
- (used of vowels or syllables) pronounced with little or no stress
- overly diluted; thin and insipid
- lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality
- wanting in moral strength, courage, or will; having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings
- deficient or lacking in some skill
- not having authority, political strength, or governing power
- (used of verbs) having standard (or regular) inflection
- wanting in physical strength
- deficient in magnitude; barely perceptible; lacking clarity or brightness or loudness etc
- likely to fail under stress or pressure
- (often with for) Having a strong, irrepressible emotional love for someone or (less often) something; sentimentally affected by such love.
- (chemistry) That does not ionize completely into anions and cations in a solution.
- Limp, soft.
- (Germanic languages, of verbs) Regular in inflection, lacking vowel changes and having a past tense with -d- or -t-.
- Dilute, lacking in taste or potency.
- Not prevalent or effective, or not felt to be prevalent; not potent; feeble.
- Lacking in vigour or expression.
- (photography) Lacking contrast.
- Lacking in force (usually strength) or ability.
- (physics) One of the four fundamental forces associated with nuclear decay.
- Unable to sustain a great weight, pressure, or strain.
- (slang) Bad or uncool.
- (mathematics, logic) Having a narrow range of logical consequences; narrowly applicable. (Often contrasted with a strong statement which implies it.)
- Resulting from, or indicating, lack of judgment, discernment, or firmness; unwise; hence, foolish.
- Not having power to convince; not supported by force of reason or truth; unsustained.
- (Germanic languages, of nouns) Showing less distinct grammatical endings.
- (stock market) Tending towards lower prices.
- (Germanic languages, of adjectives) Definite in meaning, often used with a definite article or similar word.
- Unable to withstand temptation, urgency, persuasion, etc.; easily impressed, moved, or overcome; accessible; vulnerable.
adj
noun
- (by extension) A person with low endurance.
- A person who cannot handle their drink; one who gets drunk on very little alcohol.
- Something that is light in weight, or relatively so.
- One of little consequence or ability.
- (rowing) A particular weight category as prescribed by the rules, separate from an open or heavyweight class.
- (combat sports) A particular weight class, or member of such, as prescribed by the rules, between that of the heavier welterweight and the lighter featherweight. See Wikipedia for the specifics of each sport.
- A political candidate with little chance of winning.
- (weightlifting) A competitive weight division as prescribed by the rules, between the heavier middleweight and the lighter featherweight.
- an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 132 pounds
- A weight class division in combat sports, for fighters heavier than those in the featherweight division and lighter than those in the welterweight division.
- a professional boxer who weighs between 131 and 135 pounds
- a wrestler who weighs 139-154 pounds
- someone who is unimportant but cheeky and presumptuous
verb
adj
- Lacking the ability to reason.
- Contrary to reason; lacking an appropriate or sufficient reason; irrational.
- (economics, social sciences, public policy) Not based on one's own interests; inconsistent with utility maximization.
- (often philosophy) Not within the domain of what can be understood or analyzed by reason; outside the competence of the rules of reason.
noun
- lack of normal development of intellectual capacities
- any agent that retards or delays or hinders
- the extent to which something is delayed or held back
- the act of slowing down or falling behind
- a decrease in rate of change
- (acoustics) The distance by which one wave is behind another.
- (music) A suspension which resolves upwards.
- (colloquial, derogatory, offensive) Extreme stupidity.
- (music) The act of diminishing the rate of speed.
- The extent to which anything is retarded; the result of any retarding or delay; mental, social, or physical slowness.
- That which retards; an obstacle; an obstruction.
- (physics) Deceleration; reduction in the magnitude of velocity.
- (psychology) Ellipsis of mental retardation.
- (telegraphy) A decrease in the speed of telegraph signalling.
noun
- lack of normal development of intellectual capacities
- a rate demonstrating an absence of haste or hurry
- unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training
- (physics) A unit, the reciprocal of velocity, that delineates the amount of time required for an object to travel a given distance.
- The quality or state of being slow.
adj
- lacking in insight or discernment
- slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity
- of an angle; between 90 and 180 degrees
- (of a leaf shape) rounded at the apex
- (geometry, specifically, of an angle) Larger than one, and smaller than two right angles, or more than 90° and less than 180°.
- (now chiefly botany, zoology) Blunt; not sharp, pointed, or acute in form.
- (geometry, by ellipsis) Obtuse-angled, having an obtuse angle.
- Of sound, etc.: deadened, muffled, muted.
- (botany, zoology) Blunt, or rounded at the extremity.
- Indirect or circuitous.
- Intellectually dull or dim-witted.
adj
- lacking in insight or discernment
- having greatly reduced vision
- Of a person: having impaired vision; partially blind; dim-sighted.
- Of the eyes: unable to see well, especially due to old age; weak.
- Of a person: lacking in discernment or understanding; dim-witted, unintelligent.
- Of a place: poorly illuminated; dark, dim.
noun
verb
noun
- a person lacking intelligence or common sense
- any herbaceous plant having medicinal properties
- (weaving) A drawloom.
- (logic) A simple or atomic proposition.
- (pharmacology) A herbal preparation made from one plant, as opposed to something made from more than one plant.
- (Roman Catholicism) A feast which is not a double or a semidouble.
- (weaving) Part of the apparatus for raising the heddles of a drawloom.
adj
- exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity
- (botany) of leaf shapes; of leaves having no divisions or subdivisions
- having few parts; not complex or complicated or involved
- apart from anything else; without additions or modifications
- easy and not involved or complicated
- lacking mental capacity and subtlety
- unornamented
- (module theory, of a module) Being non-trivial, and having no proper non-trivial submodules (equivalently, no proper non-trivial quotient modules).
- Uncomplicated; lacking complexity; taken by itself, with nothing added.
- Free from duplicity; guileless, innocent, straightforward.
- (botany) Not compound, but possibly lobed.
- Easy; not difficult.
- (now colloquial, euphemistic) Feeble-minded; foolish.
- (zoology) Consisting of a single individual or zooid; not compound.
- (algebra, of a Lie algebra) Being non-abelian and having no proper non-zero ideals. (Note that this is non-equivalent to the usual algebra sense; in particular, the abelian Lie algebra of dimension 1 over any given field is non-trivial and has no proper non-zero ideals, but is by convention not considered simple.)
- (mineralogy) Homogenous.
- (ring theory, of a ring) Being non-zero, and having no proper non-zero two-sided ideals (equivalently, no proper non-trivial quotient rings). For commutative rings, this definition coincides with that of a field.
- Without ornamentation; plain.
- (mathematics, real analysis, measure theory, of a real-valued function) Equal to a finite linear combination of indicator functions on measurable sets.
- (group theory, of a group) Being non-trivial, and having no proper non-trivial normal subgroups (equivalently, no proper non-trivial quotient groups).
- Undistinguished in social condition; of no special rank.
- (category theory, of an object in a category with a terminal object) Being non-isomorphic to the terminal object, and such that its only quotient objects (up to isomorphism) are the terminal object and itself.
- (chemistry, pharmacology) Consisting of one single substance; uncompounded.
- Using steam only once in its cylinders, in contrast to a compound engine, where steam is used more than once in high-pressure and low-pressure cylinders. (of a steam engine)
- (universal algebra, of an algebraic structure) Containing more than one element, and such that the only congruences on the structure are the diagonal relation (the equivalence relation a≡b⟺a=b) and the universal relation (the equivalence relation such that a≡b for all a,b). Equivalently, containing more than one element and having no proper non-trivial quotient algebras.
noun
- lack of sensibility
- the quality of lacking interestingness
- without sharpness or clearness of edge or point
- the quality of being slow to understand
- a lack of visual brightness
- The lack of visual brilliance; want of sheen.
- (of an edge) bluntness.
- The quality of being uninteresting; boring; humorless or irksome.
- The quality of not perceiving or kenning things distinctly.
- The quality of being slow of understanding things.
- Lack of interest or excitement.
adj
noun
adj
- lacking wit or imagination
- not fanciful or imaginative
- not challenging; dull and lacking excitement
- (of writing or speaking) Straightforward; matter-of-fact; lacking the feeling or elegance of poetry.
- (main usage, usually of writing or speaking but also figurative) Overly plain, simple or commonplace, to the point of being boring.
- Pertaining to or having the characteristics of prose.
adj
- So scholarly as to be unaware of the outside world; lacking in worldliness; inexperienced in practical matters.
- Having a love of or aptitude for learning.
- Having little practical use or value, as by being overly detailed and unengaging, or by being theoretical and speculative with no practical importance.
- Subscribing to the architectural standards of Vitruvius.
- In particular: relating to literary, classical, or artistic studies like the humanities, rather than to technical or vocational studies like engineering or welding.
- Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning, or a scholarly society or organization.
- (art) Conforming to set rules and traditions; conventional; formalistic.
- Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato.
- associated with academia or an academy
- hypothetical or theoretical and not expected to produce an immediate or practical result
- marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects
noun
- (plural only) Academic dress; academicals.
- A senior member of an academy, college, or university; a person who attends an academy; a person engaged in scholarly pursuits; one who is academic in practice.
- (plural only) Academic studies.
- A member of the Academy; an academician.
- (usually capitalized) A follower of Plato, a Platonist.
- an educator who works at a college or university
noun
- Intellectual ability; faculty of thinking, reasoning.
- (now usually in the plural) Sanity.
- The ability to think quickly; mental cleverness, especially under short time constraints.
- Humour, especially when clever or quick.
- Intelligence; common sense.
- A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes; someone witty.
- mental ability
- a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
- a witty amusing person who makes jokes
prep
verb
adj
- Lacking intellectual discernment, as for example because of greed or stupidity.
- Covered by blinds.
- (sciences) Willingly prevented from knowing certain information that, were it known, might bias an outcome or decision (either consciously or unconsciously).
- Deprived of sight temporarily, by being either dazzled or blindfolded.
- (of a bus) Displaying a particular destination or route number on the blinds.
- Deprived of sight in a way that is or may be permanent, by damage to the eyes or brain.
- deprived of sight
verb
adj
- slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity
- hard to pass through because of dense growth
- having high relative density or specific gravity
- permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter
- having component parts closely crowded together
- Thick; difficult to penetrate.
- Opaque; allowing little light to pass through.
- (mathematics, topology, of a subset S of a topological space T, not comparable) Such that its closure in T is T.
- Compact; crowded together.
- Obscure or difficult to understand.
- Slow to comprehend; of low intelligence. (of a person)
- Having relatively high density.
noun
adj
- slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity
- made dim or less bright
- lacking clarity or distinctness
- lacking in light; not bright or harsh
- offering little or no hope
- Indistinct, hazy or unclear.
- (colloquial) Not smart or intelligent.
- Disapproving, unfavorable: rarely used outside the phrase take a dim view of.
- Not bright or colorful.
- (music) Clipping of diminished.
verb
- make dim or lusterless
- make dim by comparison or conceal
- become vague or indistinct
- become dim or lusterless
- switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam
- (intransitive) To become darker.
- To render dim, obscure, or dark; to make less bright or distinct.
- To deprive of distinct vision; to hinder from seeing clearly, either by dazzling or clouding the eyes; to darken the senses or understanding of.
- (figurative) To diminish, dull, or curtail.
- (transitive) To make something less bright.
adj
- slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity
- lacking in liveliness or animation
- not having a sharp edge or point
- darkened with overcast
- emitting or reflecting very little light
- blunted in responsiveness or sensibility
- so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness
- not clear and resonant; sounding as if striking with or against something relatively soft
- not keenly felt
- (of business) not active or brisk
- (of color) very low in saturation; highly diluted
- being or made softer or less loud or clear
- Not clear, muffled. (of a noise or sound)
- Bored, depressed, down.
- Insensible; unfeeling.
- Sluggish, listless.
- Cloudy, overcast.
- (of pain etc) Not intense; felt indistinctly or only slightly.
- Not bright or intelligent; stupid; having slow understanding.
- Heavy; lifeless; inert.
- Not shiny; having a matte finish or no particular luster or brightness.
- Boring; not exciting or interesting.
- Lacking the ability to cut easily; not sharp.
verb
- make less lively or vigorous
- make dull in appearance
- become less interesting or attractive
- become dull or lusterless in appearance; lose shine or brightness
- make dull or blunt
- make numb or insensitive
- deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping
- (intransitive) To lose a sharp edge; to become dull.
- To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish.
- (transitive) To render dull; to remove or blunt an edge or something that was sharp.
- (transitive) To soften, moderate or blunt; to make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy.
adj
- slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity
- lacking the power of human speech
- unable to speak because of hereditary deafness
- temporarily incapable of speaking
- (figuratively) Pointless, foolish, lacking intellectual content or value.
- (of technology) Not equipped with intelligent behavior or processing capabilities of its own.
- (informal, derogatory, especially of a person) Stupid.
- Lacking some functionality or property ordinarily characteristic of its kind.
adv
verb
adj
- slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity
- (used of timepieces) indicating a time earlier than the correct time
- so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness
- (of business) not active or brisk
- at a slow tempo
- not moving quickly; taking a comparatively long time
- Taking a long time to move or go a short distance, or to perform an action; not quick in motion; proceeding at a low speed.
- Not happening in a short time; spread over a comparatively long time.
- (informal, somewhat derogatory) Of reduced intellectual capacity; not quick to comprehend.
- (of a period of time) Not busy; lacking activity.
- Not hasty; not tending to hurry; acting with deliberation or caution.
- Lacking spirit; deficient in liveliness or briskness.
- (of a clock or the like) Behind in time; indicating a time earlier than the true time.
adv
verb
noun
adj
- Lacking worldly experience, wisdom, or judgement; unsophisticated.
- (computing) Intuitive; designed to follow the way ordinary people approach a problem.
- (of art) Produced in a simple, childlike style, deliberately rejecting sophisticated techniques.
- Not having been exposed to something.
- not initiated; deficient in relevant experience
- lacking information or instruction
- inexperienced
- marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience
- of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style
noun
noun
- Lack of sharpness of mind; lack of ability to think using complex ideas; stupidity
- The quality or state of being unmixed or uncompounded
- Lack of complication; efficiency.
- The quality or state of being not complex, or of consisting of few parts.
- Lack of subtlety or abstruseness; clarity
- Lack of artificial ornament, pretentious style, or luxury; plainness
- a lack of penetration or subtlety
- freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort
- lack of ornamentation
- the quality of being simple or uncompounded
- absence of affectation or pretense
noun
- lack of normal development of intellectual capacities
- any agent that retards or delays or hinders
- the extent to which something is delayed or held back
- the act of slowing down or falling behind
- a decrease in rate of change
- (acoustics) The distance by which one wave is behind another.
- (music) A suspension which resolves upwards.
- (colloquial, derogatory, offensive) Extreme stupidity.
- (music) The act of diminishing the rate of speed.
- The extent to which anything is retarded; the result of any retarding or delay; mental, social, or physical slowness.
- That which retards; an obstacle; an obstruction.
- (physics) Deceleration; reduction in the magnitude of velocity.
- (psychology) Ellipsis of mental retardation.
- (telegraphy) A decrease in the speed of telegraph signalling.
noun
- lack of normal development of intellectual capacities
- a rate demonstrating an absence of haste or hurry
- unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training
- (physics) A unit, the reciprocal of velocity, that delineates the amount of time required for an object to travel a given distance.
- The quality or state of being slow.
noun
- a person lacking intelligence or common sense
- any herbaceous plant having medicinal properties
- (weaving) A drawloom.
- (logic) A simple or atomic proposition.
- (pharmacology) A herbal preparation made from one plant, as opposed to something made from more than one plant.
- (Roman Catholicism) A feast which is not a double or a semidouble.
- (weaving) Part of the apparatus for raising the heddles of a drawloom.
adj
- exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity
- (botany) of leaf shapes; of leaves having no divisions or subdivisions
- having few parts; not complex or complicated or involved
- apart from anything else; without additions or modifications
- easy and not involved or complicated
- lacking mental capacity and subtlety
- unornamented
- (module theory, of a module) Being non-trivial, and having no proper non-trivial submodules (equivalently, no proper non-trivial quotient modules).
- Uncomplicated; lacking complexity; taken by itself, with nothing added.
- Free from duplicity; guileless, innocent, straightforward.
- (botany) Not compound, but possibly lobed.
- Easy; not difficult.
- (now colloquial, euphemistic) Feeble-minded; foolish.
- (zoology) Consisting of a single individual or zooid; not compound.
- (algebra, of a Lie algebra) Being non-abelian and having no proper non-zero ideals. (Note that this is non-equivalent to the usual algebra sense; in particular, the abelian Lie algebra of dimension 1 over any given field is non-trivial and has no proper non-zero ideals, but is by convention not considered simple.)
- (mineralogy) Homogenous.
- (ring theory, of a ring) Being non-zero, and having no proper non-zero two-sided ideals (equivalently, no proper non-trivial quotient rings). For commutative rings, this definition coincides with that of a field.
- Without ornamentation; plain.
- (mathematics, real analysis, measure theory, of a real-valued function) Equal to a finite linear combination of indicator functions on measurable sets.
- (group theory, of a group) Being non-trivial, and having no proper non-trivial normal subgroups (equivalently, no proper non-trivial quotient groups).
- Undistinguished in social condition; of no special rank.
- (category theory, of an object in a category with a terminal object) Being non-isomorphic to the terminal object, and such that its only quotient objects (up to isomorphism) are the terminal object and itself.
- (chemistry, pharmacology) Consisting of one single substance; uncompounded.
- Using steam only once in its cylinders, in contrast to a compound engine, where steam is used more than once in high-pressure and low-pressure cylinders. (of a steam engine)
- (universal algebra, of an algebraic structure) Containing more than one element, and such that the only congruences on the structure are the diagonal relation (the equivalence relation a≡b⟺a=b) and the universal relation (the equivalence relation such that a≡b for all a,b). Equivalently, containing more than one element and having no proper non-trivial quotient algebras.
noun
- lack of sensibility
- the quality of lacking interestingness
- without sharpness or clearness of edge or point
- the quality of being slow to understand
- a lack of visual brightness
- The lack of visual brilliance; want of sheen.
- (of an edge) bluntness.
- The quality of being uninteresting; boring; humorless or irksome.
- The quality of not perceiving or kenning things distinctly.
- The quality of being slow of understanding things.
- Lack of interest or excitement.
noun
- Intellectual ability; faculty of thinking, reasoning.
- (now usually in the plural) Sanity.
- The ability to think quickly; mental cleverness, especially under short time constraints.
- Humour, especially when clever or quick.
- Intelligence; common sense.
- A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes; someone witty.
- mental ability
- a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
- a witty amusing person who makes jokes
prep
verb
没有找到匹配词语。请尝试更宽泛的描述。
adj
- lacking intelligence
- lacking or marked by lack of intellectual acuity
- in a state of mental numbness especially as resulting from shock
- (euphemistic, by association) Usually replaces an obscene or profane word, and thus is audibly stressed as such.
- (slang) Amazing.
- To the point of stupor.
- Unpleasant; annoying to the speaker. This sense can be used alongside obscene words.
- (of animates) Lacking in intelligence.
- Exhibiting the quality of having been done by someone lacking in intelligence.
- Dulled in feeling or sensation; torpid.
noun
adv
adj
- devoid of intelligence or thought
- lacking the thinking capacity characteristic of a conscious being
- Lacking a mind.
- requiring little mental effort
- not mindful or attentive
- not marked by the use of reason
- Showing a lack of forethought or sense.
- Having no sensible meaning or purpose.
- (of a thing done) Overly repetitive and unchallenging, not requiring any careful attention or providing any significant stimulation.
- Heedless.
adj
noun
adj
- marked by lack of intellectual depth
- having only superficial plausibility
- artfully persuasive in speech
- Snarky or unserious in a disrespectful way.
- Having a ready flow of words but lacking thought or understanding; superficial; shallow.
- Artfully persuasive but insincere in nature; smooth-talking, honey-tongued, silver-tongued.
noun
verb
adj
- deficient in intelligence or mental power
- tending downward in price
- (used of vowels or syllables) pronounced with little or no stress
- overly diluted; thin and insipid
- lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality
- wanting in moral strength, courage, or will; having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings
- deficient or lacking in some skill
- not having authority, political strength, or governing power
- (used of verbs) having standard (or regular) inflection
- wanting in physical strength
- deficient in magnitude; barely perceptible; lacking clarity or brightness or loudness etc
- likely to fail under stress or pressure
- (often with for) Having a strong, irrepressible emotional love for someone or (less often) something; sentimentally affected by such love.
- (chemistry) That does not ionize completely into anions and cations in a solution.
- Limp, soft.
- (Germanic languages, of verbs) Regular in inflection, lacking vowel changes and having a past tense with -d- or -t-.
- Dilute, lacking in taste or potency.
- Not prevalent or effective, or not felt to be prevalent; not potent; feeble.
- Lacking in vigour or expression.
- (photography) Lacking contrast.
- Lacking in force (usually strength) or ability.
- (physics) One of the four fundamental forces associated with nuclear decay.
- Unable to sustain a great weight, pressure, or strain.
- (slang) Bad or uncool.
- (mathematics, logic) Having a narrow range of logical consequences; narrowly applicable. (Often contrasted with a strong statement which implies it.)
- Resulting from, or indicating, lack of judgment, discernment, or firmness; unwise; hence, foolish.
- Not having power to convince; not supported by force of reason or truth; unsustained.
- (Germanic languages, of nouns) Showing less distinct grammatical endings.
- (stock market) Tending towards lower prices.
- (Germanic languages, of adjectives) Definite in meaning, often used with a definite article or similar word.
- Unable to withstand temptation, urgency, persuasion, etc.; easily impressed, moved, or overcome; accessible; vulnerable.
adj
noun
- (by extension) A person with low endurance.
- A person who cannot handle their drink; one who gets drunk on very little alcohol.
- Something that is light in weight, or relatively so.
- One of little consequence or ability.
- (rowing) A particular weight category as prescribed by the rules, separate from an open or heavyweight class.
- (combat sports) A particular weight class, or member of such, as prescribed by the rules, between that of the heavier welterweight and the lighter featherweight. See Wikipedia for the specifics of each sport.
- A political candidate with little chance of winning.
- (weightlifting) A competitive weight division as prescribed by the rules, between the heavier middleweight and the lighter featherweight.
- an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 132 pounds
- A weight class division in combat sports, for fighters heavier than those in the featherweight division and lighter than those in the welterweight division.
- a professional boxer who weighs between 131 and 135 pounds
- a wrestler who weighs 139-154 pounds
- someone who is unimportant but cheeky and presumptuous
verb
adj
- Lacking the ability to reason.
- Contrary to reason; lacking an appropriate or sufficient reason; irrational.
- (economics, social sciences, public policy) Not based on one's own interests; inconsistent with utility maximization.
- (often philosophy) Not within the domain of what can be understood or analyzed by reason; outside the competence of the rules of reason.
adj
- lacking in insight or discernment
- slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity
- of an angle; between 90 and 180 degrees
- (of a leaf shape) rounded at the apex
- (geometry, specifically, of an angle) Larger than one, and smaller than two right angles, or more than 90° and less than 180°.
- (now chiefly botany, zoology) Blunt; not sharp, pointed, or acute in form.
- (geometry, by ellipsis) Obtuse-angled, having an obtuse angle.
- Of sound, etc.: deadened, muffled, muted.
- (botany, zoology) Blunt, or rounded at the extremity.
- Indirect or circuitous.
- Intellectually dull or dim-witted.
adj
- lacking in insight or discernment
- having greatly reduced vision
- Of a person: having impaired vision; partially blind; dim-sighted.
- Of the eyes: unable to see well, especially due to old age; weak.
- Of a person: lacking in discernment or understanding; dim-witted, unintelligent.
- Of a place: poorly illuminated; dark, dim.
noun
verb
adj
noun
adj
- lacking wit or imagination
- not fanciful or imaginative
- not challenging; dull and lacking excitement
- (of writing or speaking) Straightforward; matter-of-fact; lacking the feeling or elegance of poetry.
- (main usage, usually of writing or speaking but also figurative) Overly plain, simple or commonplace, to the point of being boring.
- Pertaining to or having the characteristics of prose.
adj
- So scholarly as to be unaware of the outside world; lacking in worldliness; inexperienced in practical matters.
- Having a love of or aptitude for learning.
- Having little practical use or value, as by being overly detailed and unengaging, or by being theoretical and speculative with no practical importance.
- Subscribing to the architectural standards of Vitruvius.
- In particular: relating to literary, classical, or artistic studies like the humanities, rather than to technical or vocational studies like engineering or welding.
- Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning, or a scholarly society or organization.
- (art) Conforming to set rules and traditions; conventional; formalistic.
- Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato.
- associated with academia or an academy
- hypothetical or theoretical and not expected to produce an immediate or practical result
- marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects
noun
- (plural only) Academic dress; academicals.
- A senior member of an academy, college, or university; a person who attends an academy; a person engaged in scholarly pursuits; one who is academic in practice.
- (plural only) Academic studies.
- A member of the Academy; an academician.
- (usually capitalized) A follower of Plato, a Platonist.
- an educator who works at a college or university
adj
- Lacking intellectual discernment, as for example because of greed or stupidity.
- Covered by blinds.
- (sciences) Willingly prevented from knowing certain information that, were it known, might bias an outcome or decision (either consciously or unconsciously).
- Deprived of sight temporarily, by being either dazzled or blindfolded.
- (of a bus) Displaying a particular destination or route number on the blinds.
- Deprived of sight in a way that is or may be permanent, by damage to the eyes or brain.
- deprived of sight
verb
adj
- slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity
- hard to pass through because of dense growth
- having high relative density or specific gravity
- permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter
- having component parts closely crowded together
- Thick; difficult to penetrate.
- Opaque; allowing little light to pass through.
- (mathematics, topology, of a subset S of a topological space T, not comparable) Such that its closure in T is T.
- Compact; crowded together.
- Obscure or difficult to understand.
- Slow to comprehend; of low intelligence. (of a person)
- Having relatively high density.
noun
adj
- slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity
- made dim or less bright
- lacking clarity or distinctness
- lacking in light; not bright or harsh
- offering little or no hope
- Indistinct, hazy or unclear.
- (colloquial) Not smart or intelligent.
- Disapproving, unfavorable: rarely used outside the phrase take a dim view of.
- Not bright or colorful.
- (music) Clipping of diminished.
verb
- make dim or lusterless
- make dim by comparison or conceal
- become vague or indistinct
- become dim or lusterless
- switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam
- (intransitive) To become darker.
- To render dim, obscure, or dark; to make less bright or distinct.
- To deprive of distinct vision; to hinder from seeing clearly, either by dazzling or clouding the eyes; to darken the senses or understanding of.
- (figurative) To diminish, dull, or curtail.
- (transitive) To make something less bright.
adj
- slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity
- lacking in liveliness or animation
- not having a sharp edge or point
- darkened with overcast
- emitting or reflecting very little light
- blunted in responsiveness or sensibility
- so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness
- not clear and resonant; sounding as if striking with or against something relatively soft
- not keenly felt
- (of business) not active or brisk
- (of color) very low in saturation; highly diluted
- being or made softer or less loud or clear
- Not clear, muffled. (of a noise or sound)
- Bored, depressed, down.
- Insensible; unfeeling.
- Sluggish, listless.
- Cloudy, overcast.
- (of pain etc) Not intense; felt indistinctly or only slightly.
- Not bright or intelligent; stupid; having slow understanding.
- Heavy; lifeless; inert.
- Not shiny; having a matte finish or no particular luster or brightness.
- Boring; not exciting or interesting.
- Lacking the ability to cut easily; not sharp.
verb
- make less lively or vigorous
- make dull in appearance
- become less interesting or attractive
- become dull or lusterless in appearance; lose shine or brightness
- make dull or blunt
- make numb or insensitive
- deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping
- (intransitive) To lose a sharp edge; to become dull.
- To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish.
- (transitive) To render dull; to remove or blunt an edge or something that was sharp.
- (transitive) To soften, moderate or blunt; to make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy.
adj
- slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity
- lacking the power of human speech
- unable to speak because of hereditary deafness
- temporarily incapable of speaking
- (figuratively) Pointless, foolish, lacking intellectual content or value.
- (of technology) Not equipped with intelligent behavior or processing capabilities of its own.
- (informal, derogatory, especially of a person) Stupid.
- Lacking some functionality or property ordinarily characteristic of its kind.
adv
verb
adj
- slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity
- (used of timepieces) indicating a time earlier than the correct time
- so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness
- (of business) not active or brisk
- at a slow tempo
- not moving quickly; taking a comparatively long time
- Taking a long time to move or go a short distance, or to perform an action; not quick in motion; proceeding at a low speed.
- Not happening in a short time; spread over a comparatively long time.
- (informal, somewhat derogatory) Of reduced intellectual capacity; not quick to comprehend.
- (of a period of time) Not busy; lacking activity.
- Not hasty; not tending to hurry; acting with deliberation or caution.
- Lacking spirit; deficient in liveliness or briskness.
- (of a clock or the like) Behind in time; indicating a time earlier than the true time.
adv
verb
noun
adj
- Lacking worldly experience, wisdom, or judgement; unsophisticated.
- (computing) Intuitive; designed to follow the way ordinary people approach a problem.
- (of art) Produced in a simple, childlike style, deliberately rejecting sophisticated techniques.
- Not having been exposed to something.
- not initiated; deficient in relevant experience
- lacking information or instruction
- inexperienced
- marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience
- of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style