unintelligentsia

unintelligentsia
The unintelligent members of a society or community; the unthinking mob.

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  • intelligentsia — noun /ɪntɛlɪˈʤɛntsɪə,ɪntɛlɪˈɡɛntsɪə/ The intellectual élite of a society (especially in nineteenth century Poland, in Russia and later the Soviet Union). See Also: unintelligentsia …   Wiktionary

  • dabbler — Synonyms and related words: Sunday painter, abecedarian, amateur, coquet, criticaster, dabster, dallier, dilettante, dunce, flirt, fool, fribble, grammaticaster, greenhorn, greeny, half scholar, ignoramus, illiterate, illiterati, know nothing,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • dilettante — Synonyms and related words: Sunday painter, abecedarian, admirer, aesthete, aficionado, amateur, arbiter, arbiter elegantiarum, arbiter of taste, authority, bon vivant, booster, buff, cognoscente, collector, connaisseur, connoisseur, coquet,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • dunce — Synonyms and related words: Boeotian, block, blockhead, bonehead, boob, booby, bufflehead, cabbagehead, chowderhead, chucklehead, chump, clod, clodpate, clodpoll, cluck, dabbler, dilettante, dimwit, dodo, dolt, dolthead, donkey, dope, drip,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • fool — Synonyms and related words: Columbine, Hanswurst, Harlequin, Pantalone, Pantaloon, Polichinelle, Pulcinella, Punch, Punchinello, Scaramouch, ament, apish, asinine, ass, babe, bamboozle, banter, batty, be foolish, be stupid, befool, befooled,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • greenhorn — Synonyms and related words: abecedarian, alphabetarian, apprentice, arriviste, articled clerk, babe, baby, beginner, boob, boot, catechumen, chump, cinch, credulous person, cull, dabbler, deb, debutant, dilettante, dull tool, dunce, dupe, easy… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • greeny — Synonyms and related words: apprentice, babe, baby, beginner, boob, catechumen, chump, cinch, credulous person, cull, dabbler, deb, debutant, dilettante, dunce, dupe, easy mark, easy pickings, entrant, fall guy, fish, fledgling, fool, freshman,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • ignoramus — Synonyms and related words: abecedarian, alphabetarian, apprentice, articled clerk, ass, beginner, boot, born fool, buffoon, catechumen, clown, dabbler, debutant, dilettante, doodle, dullard, dullhead, dumbbell, dummkopf, dummy, dunce, egregious… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • illiterate — Synonyms and related words: Gothic, Philistine, barbarous, benighted, bookless, dabbler, deceived, dilettante, dunce, empty headed, fool, functionally illiterate, grammarless, greenhorn, greeny, heathen, hoodwinked, ignoramus, ignorant, ill… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • know nothing — Synonyms and related words: antiblack, awkward, be green, be ignorant, benighted, biased, blankminded, callow, chauvinistic, colored, dabbler, dilettante, dimwit, doctrinaire, dogmatic, dolt, dope, dumb, dummy, dunce, empty, empty headed, fool,… …   Moby Thesaurus

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