- simpleminded
- adjective Date: 1601 devoid of subtlety ; unsophisticated; also foolish • simplemindedly adverb • simplemindedness noun
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
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simpleminded — [adj] unsophisticated brainless, childlike, clueless, crude, dumb, feeble minded, idiotic, ignorant, moronic, naive, slow, stupid, uncomplicated, unschooled, unstudied, untutored, unworldly; concepts 401,548,562 … New thesaurus
simpleminded — simplemindedly, adv. simplemindedness, n. /sim peuhl muyn did, muyn /, adj. 1. free of deceit or guile; artless or unsophisticated. 2. lacking in mental acuteness or sense. 3. mentally deficient. Also, simple minded. [1735 45; SIMPLE + MINDED]… … Universalium
simpleminded — adjective stupid … Wiktionary
simpleminded — Synonyms and related words: arrested, artless, babbling, backward, blithering, bluff, blunt, born yesterday, burbling, candid, childlike, confiding, crackbrained, cracked, crazy, cretinistic, cretinous, dim witted, direct, dithering, driveling,… … Moby Thesaurus
simpleminded — (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. unsophisticated, stupid, dense, dull, dumb, moronic, slow, bovine, ignorant, witless, *clueless, brainless. ANT.: sophisticated, smart, *savvy … English dictionary for students
simpleminded — adj. naive, unsophisticated; foolish, silly; mentally impaired … English contemporary dictionary
simpleminded — sim′ple•mind′ed adj. 1) lacking in mental acuteness or sense 2) artless or unsophisticated • Etymology: 1735–45 sim′ple•mind′ed•ly, adv. sim′ple•mind′ed•ness, n … From formal English to slang
simpleminded — … Useful english dictionary
Sellers, Peter — orig. Richard Henry Sellers born Sept. 8, 1925, Southsea, Hampshire, Eng. died July 24, 1980, London British film actor. The son of vaudeville performers, he acted from childhood in his parents comedy act. In the early 1950s he performed on radio … Universalium
simplemindedly — adverb see simpleminded … New Collegiate Dictionary
