simpleton
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7.3
- noun
- /ˈsɪmplˌtən/
- Offensive
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tonto
- Poor Steve suffers from a simpleton's view of the political landscape in the US.
My question for the minimalists and simpletons is how do you stop buying?
- My question for the minimalists and simpletons is how do you stop buying?
- Well, a simpleton is a foolish or gullible person.
- He looks like a simpleton anyway, listen, there's a lot, there's a lot of shit out there.
- Michael is an author and our cast and simpleton, and I'm proud to call him my friend.
- Like the fucking simpletons that yell out talk about the queen that try to give you comedy advice.
- He the Fool, for example of relatively speaking, is a simpleton, is like The Hobbit in Lord of the Rings, the The Hobbit.
- What a gaping simpleton Dostoevsky looks in his injured and insulted, not to mention poor folk, these early works, right?
Examples
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Often a wise man tells a better story of what he has read than a simpleton who has experienced it.
Academic text (2001) -
Arch Cook is an amiable simpleton who sometimes talks to himself or laughs for no reason.
Fiction book (1993) -
Or is it just easier to lock up a simpleton?
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All this time, I took you for... well, a complete simpleton.
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You said he was a simpleton.
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In the end, you come across as a proper simpleton!
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Frankly, you come across as a real simpleton who is unable to grasp complex matters.
Blog text (15) -
I can reach no one but simpletons on the telephone when the telephone is working, which is only intermittently.
Fiction book (2002) -
When faced with a simpleton and a bluestocking, Otavio ultimately feels more kindly disposed toward the former.
Academic text (2000) -
He may seem clever, but he is just a simpleton who believes everything he hears.
Synonyms
300
7.0
A person who is easily tricked
115
6.0
A person who is seen as stupid or makes simple mistakes
36
7.9
A person who acts silly and not very smart
35
8.7
A person who makes silly mistakes
14
7.7
A person who is not very smart
1
2.7
A person who is not intelligent and often makes poor choices
1
9.8
A rude word for a person who is very stupid
1
9.9
A person who is not very intelligent
1
9.9
A person who is not very clever and is easy to trick
1
9.1
A person who is easily fooled and trusts others too much
1
9.9
A person who is foolish and easily tricked
A person who behaves in a silly way
A person who behaves in a silly way
A person who is simple and easily fooled
An old word for a person who is foolish or slow to understand
A foolish person who is easily tricked
A person who trusts others and falls for tricks easily
Antonyms
How Foolish
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Simpleton comes from simple meaning 'not complicated' plus a small ending -ton that once made a word mean 'a little one'. So a simpleton is like 'a little simple one', which helps explain why it means a person who seems 'foolish' or 'easily fooled'.