English > simpleton: 1 sense > noun 1, person | Meaning | A person lacking intelligence or common sense. |
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| Synonym | simple |
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| Narrower | airhead | A flighty scatterbrained / scatterbrained simpleton |
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| dimwit, nitwit, half-wit, doofus | A stupid incompetent person |
| dingbat | A silly empty-headed person |
| dumbbell, dummy, dope, boob, booby, pinhead | An ignorant or foolish person |
| fool, sap, saphead, muggins, tomfool | A person who lacks good judgment |
| idiot, imbecile, cretin, moron, changeling, half-wit, retard | A person of subnormal intelligence |
| idiot savant | person who is mentally retarded in general but who displays remarkable aptitude in some limited field (usually involving memory) |
| nebbish, nebbech | (Yiddish) a timid unfortunate simpleton |
| nincompoop, poop, ninny | A stupid foolish person |
| scatterbrain, forgetful person | A flighty and disorganized person |
| schlemiel, shlemiel | (Yiddish) a dolt who is a habitual bungler |
| schlepper, shlepper, schlep, shlep | (Yiddish) an awkward and stupid person |
| schnook, shnook | (Yiddish) a gullible simpleton more to be pitied than despised |
| sheep | A timid defenseless simpleton who is readily preyed upon |
| space cadet | someone who seems unable to respond appropriately to reality (as if under the influence of some narcotic drug) |
| square, lame | someone who doesn't understand what is going on |
| stupid, stupid person, stupe, dullard, dolt, pudding head, pudden-head, poor fish, pillock | A person who is not very bright |
| subnormal | A person of less than normal intelligence |
| twerp, twirp, twit | someone who is regarded as contemptible |
| Broader | person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul | A human being |
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| Spanish | ababol, crédulo, ingenuo, inocente, simple, simplón |
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| Catalan | capsigrany, crèdul, enze, ingenu, innocent, simple |
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