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View synonyms for simple-minded

simple-minded

adjective

  1. stupid; foolish; feeble-minded
  2. unsophisticated; artless
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˌsimple-ˈmindedly, adverb
  • ˌsimple-ˈmindedness, noun
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Example Sentences

This absurd election season does lend itself to simple-minded thinking.

One is the committee’s single-minded, indeed simple-minded, focus on the direct effect of the proposals on the federal deficit and national debt.

Wolff also encouraged social critics to not be hoodwinked by "simple-minded arguments" that attempt to turn people off from all left-wing politics through generic vilification of bureaucrats.

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"This morning, ascend above the hate, the vitriol, and the simple-minded ideas that ignite violence," she said.

From BBC

Xist consists of RNA, a substance best known for being a simple-minded messenger that shuttles genes' instructions for making proteins to the intracellular machines that make them.

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