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Type Words
Synonyms simple
Type of someone, soul, mortal, person, individual, somebody
Has types dingbat, dolt, doofus, dope, dullard, dumbbell, dummy, fool, forgetful person, half-wit, idiot, idiot savant, imbecile, lame, moron, muggins, nebbech, nebbish, nincompoop, ninny, nitwit, pillock, pinhead, poop, poor fish, pudden-head, pudding head, retard, sap, saphead, scatterbrain, schlemiel, schlep, schlepper, schnook, sheep, shlemiel, shlep, shlepper, shnook, space cadet, square, stupe, stupid, stupid person, subnormal, tomfool, twerp, twirp, airhead, twit, boob, booby, changeling, cretin, dimwit

Examples of simpleton

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Unless you're a simpleton, its common knowledge that most are made out of wood.
From the hecklerspray.com
I am tired of the liberal spend and the Republican tax cut simpleton mindset.
From the forbes.com
The Shepherd of the Noctes is a part-animal, part-rural simpleton, and part-savant.
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Maybe it's because I'm not your typical simpleton and loud American tourist.
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Carl Brooks is wondrous as simpleton Lennie, who likes to pet soft and furry things.
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Jagan as Poochi, a young simpleton and friend of Shiva, who lives in Mumbai.
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One would have to be a naive simpleton like Adomanis to believe he committed suicide.
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I don't think anyone on here thinks you're anything other than a simpleton.
From the theargus.co.uk
Broad 1 c Boucher b Morkel Broad stands there like a simpleton, seemingly gobsmacked.
From the guardian.co.uk
More examples
  • A person lacking intelligence or common sense
  • In folklore, a simpleton is a person whose foolish actions are the subject of often-repeated stories. Simpletons are also known as noodles, fools, and gothamites. Folklore often holds, with no basis in fact, that certain towns or countries are thought to be home to large numbers of simpletons. ...
  • Simpleton (born Christopher Harrison, Saint Andrew Parish, Jamaica, 1971) was a Jamaican reggae DJ whose claim to fame was the 1992 hit single,"Coca Cola Bottle Shape."
  • (The Simpletons) Jude the Obscure, the last of Thomas Hardy's novels, began as a magazine serial and was first published in book form in 1895. The book was burned publicly by William Walsham How, Bishop of Wakefield, in that same year. ...
  • Gullible or stupid person