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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

And “alkalinizing” someone in an attempt to improve their health is simple-minded, fatuous, and dangerous.

But I do want us to understand how wrong and simple-minded our definition of freedom is today.

“This shows you how silly and how simple-minded politics can be—just absurd,” Ford says.

Stone also exaggerates in painting Bush as a simple-minded born-again Christian.

For we are simple-minded creatures, and prone to superstition.

It had never occurred to the straightforward and simple-minded Vicar that one of his own flesh and blood could come to this!

Yet it was a subtler art to let his old, simple-minded countryman ignore that detail.

This simple-minded woman meant that the fairies were the enemies of God and that the priest had driven them away.

It seduced the simple-minded, and brought the book into the hands of the imprudent and deluded multitude.

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