INTELECTUAL ABILITY

• ABILITY: intelligent, bright, clever, smart,

shrewd, able, gifted, talented, brainy.

• LACKING ABILITY: stupid, foolish, silly,

Half-witted, simple, brainless, daft, dumb, dim.

- clever: is used in a negative way as well, meaning using brains to trick or deceive such as cunning, crafty or sly.