Antonyms for intelligence
ɪnˈtɛl ɪ dʒənsin·tel·li·gence

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1. intelligencenoun

   Capacity of mind, especially to understand principles, truths, facts or meanings, acquire knowledge, and apply it to practice; the ability to learn and comprehend.

   Synonyms:
   intellect, wit, brightness

2. intelligencenoun

   An entity that has such capacities.

   Synonyms:
   intellect, brightness, wit

3. intelligencenoun

   Information, usually secret, about the enemy or about hostile activities.

   Synonyms:
   wit, intellect, brightness

4. intelligencenoun

   A political or military department, agency or unit designed to gather information, usually secret, about the enemy or about hostile activities.

   Synonyms:
   brightness, intellect, wit

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1. intelligence

   Knowledge is all that the mind knows, from whatever source derived or obtained, or by whatever process; the aggregate of facts, truths, or principles acquired or retained by the mind, including alike the intuitions native to the mind and all that has been learned respecting phenomena, causes, laws, principles, literature, etc. There is a tendency to regard knowledge as accurate and systematic, and to a certain degree complete. Information is knowledge of fact, real or supposed, derived from persons, books, or observation, and is regarded as casual and haphazard. We say of a studious man that he has a great store of knowledge, or of an intelligent man of the world, that he has a fund of varied information. Lore is used only in poetic or elevated style, for accumulated knowledge, as of a people or age, or in a more limited sense for learning or erudition. We speak of perception of external objects, apprehension of intellectual truth. Simple perception gives a limited knowledge of external objects, merely as such; the cognition of the same objects is a knowledge of them in some relation; cognizance is the formal or official recognition of something as an object of knowledge; we take cognizance of it. Intuition is primary knowledge antecedent to all teaching or reasoning, experience is knowledge that has entered directly into one's own life; as, a child's experience that fire will burn. Learning is much higher than information, being preeminently wide and systematic knowledge, the result of long, assiduous study; erudition is recondite learning secured only by extraordinary industry, opportunity, and ability. Compare ACQUAINTANCE; EDUCATION; SCIENCE; WISDOM.

   Antonyms:
   ignorance, illiteracy, inexperience, misapprehension, misconception, misunderstanding, rudeness, unfamiliarity

   Synonyms:
   acquaintance, apprehension, cognition, cognizance, comprehension, erudition, experience, information, intuition, knowledge, learning, light, lore, perception, recognition, scholarship, science, wisdom

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1. intelligence

   Antonyms:
   misunderstanding, misinformation, misconception, stupidity, dullness, suppression, ignorance, darkness, concealment, silence, nonpublication, misguidance, misintelligence, misreport, misapprehension

   Synonyms:
   understanding, apprehension, comprehension, conception, announcement, report, rumor, tidings, news, information, publication, intellectual capacity, mind, knowledge, advice, notice, instruction, intellect

Matched Categories

1. • Ability
   • Administrative Unit
   • Information
   • Information Gathering

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. intelligencenoun

   the ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience

   Antonyms:
   stupidity

   Synonyms:
   news, intelligence agency, intelligence service, intelligence information, word, intelligence activity, tidings, intelligence operation

2. intelligence, intelligence service, intelligence agencynoun

   a unit responsible for gathering and interpreting information about an enemy

   Antonyms:
   stupidity

   Synonyms:
   news, intelligence agency, intelligence service, intelligence information, word, intelligence activity, tidings, intelligence operation

3. intelligence, intelligence informationnoun

   secret information about an enemy (or potential enemy)

   "we sent out planes to gather intelligence on their radar coverage"

   Antonyms:
   stupidity

   Synonyms:
   news, intelligence agency, intelligence service, intelligence information, word, intelligence activity, tidings, intelligence operation

4. news, intelligence, tidings, wordnoun

   information about recent and important events

   "they awaited news of the outcome"

   Antonyms:
   stupidity

   Synonyms:
   password, news program, intelligence service, intelligence activity, give-and-take, news show, news, tidings, countersign, watchword, discussion, word of honor, newsworthiness, intelligence agency, word, intelligence operation, parole, intelligence information

5. intelligence, intelligence activity, intelligence operationnoun

   the operation of gathering information about an enemy

   Antonyms:
   stupidity

   Synonyms:
   news, intelligence agency, intelligence service, intelligence information, word, intelligence activity, tidings, intelligence operation

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1. intelligencenoun

   Synonyms:
   knowledge, discernment, insight, acumen

How to use intelligence in a sentence?

1. Ben Sasse:

   Mexico's president hasn't taken the threat seriously and innocent American lives have been lost. The Mexican government must partner with U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies to wage a full-scale offensive against these butchers.

2. Ankit Panda:

   This, to my eye, is the submarine that the U.S. intelligence community has been calling the Sinpo-C, a successor to North Korea's only known ballistic missile submarine.

3. Ellen Terry:

   Imagination, industry, and intelligence-the three I's-are all indispensable to the actress, but of these three the greatest is, without doubt, imagination.

4. Marlen Ochoa-Lopez:

   And the city of Chicago needs to awaken itself, if there is a place where you are not respected because of your accent, instead of your intelligence, don't accept it.

5. Admiral Mike Rogers:

   From a foreign intelligence perspective, that represents opportunity.

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