Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Absence or want of Intellect

Nouns
  • absence of intellect, want of intellect etc. Intellect
  • imbecility etc. Imbecility. Folly. brutality, brute force. instinct, brute instinct, stimulus-response loop, conditioned response, instinctive reaction, Pavlovian response. mimicry, aping (imitation) Imitation. moron, imbecile, idiot
  • fool etc. Fool
  • dumb animal
  • vegetable, brain dead.
Verbs
  • mimic, ape (imitate) Imitation
  • respond instinctively.
Adjectives
  • unendowed with reason, void of reason
  • thoughtless
  • vegetative
  • moronic [Sarc.], idiotic [Sarc.], brainless [Sarc.].
Adverbs
  • instinctively, like Pavlov's dog
  • vegetatively.