Simple-minded

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Simple-minded \Sim"ple-mind`ed\, a.
     Artless; guileless; simple-hearted; undesigning;
     unsuspecting; devoid of duplicity. --Blackstone. --
     {Sim"ple-mind`ed*ness}, n.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  simple-minded
       adj 1: lacking subtlety and insight; "a simple-minded argument"
       2: lacking mental capacity and devoid of subtlety [syn: {dim-witted},
           {half-witted}, {simple}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  65 Moby Thesaurus words for "simpleminded":
     arrested, artless, babbling, backward, blithering, bluff, blunt,
     born yesterday, burbling, candid, childlike, confiding,
     crackbrained, cracked, crazy, cretinistic, cretinous, dim-witted,
     direct, dithering, driveling, drooling, dull, feebleminded, frank,
     guileless, half-baked, half-witted, idiotic, imbecile, imbecilic,
     ingenu, ingenuous, innocent, maundering, mentally defective,
     mentally deficient, mentally handicapped, mentally retarded,
     mongoloid, moronic, naive, not all there, open, openhearted,
     outspoken, plain, retarded, simple, simplehearted, simpletonian,
     sincere, single-hearted, single-minded, slobbering, slow,
     slow-witted, subnormal, trustful, trusting, unguarded, unreserved,
     unsophisticated, unsuspicious, unwary