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A person lacking intelligence or common sense
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simpleton
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Word definitions for simpleton in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ He did not in the least wish the future Mrs Newland Archer to be a simpleton . ▪ Like some bloody simpleton he was being drawn in. ▪ The courts accept that ordinary readers are not literal-minded simpletons. ▪ The merest simpleton ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Simpleton \Sim"ple*ton\, n. [Cf. F. simplet, It. semplicione.] A person of weak intellect; a silly person.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
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 ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1640s, probably a jocular formation from simple and -ton, suffix extracted from surnames. Compare skimmington , personification of an ill-used spouse, c.1600.
Usage examples of simpleton.
Orr was a happy and unsuspecting simpleton with a thick mass of wavy polychromatic hair parted down the center.
Sancho, I am comforted, and I believe you will keep it, because in fact, although a simpleton, you are a veridical man.
A simpleton shall wipe the dews of death, and close my eyes: and when I cross the river of death, let me be met by a band of the heavenly host, who were all simpletons here on earth, and too good for such a hole, so now they are in heaven, and their garments always white--because there are no laundresses there.
Before the baggageman could open his mouth with another of his simpleton remarks, I answered.
I grinned and replied that being abovedecks watching over one simpleton was far better than being trapped belowdecks with a troop of them.
Hammond was appalled by the intelligence, and managed to imply without actually saying anything openly offensive that he thought Laurence had been a simpleton to take De Guignes at face value.
Still, he was loath to agree with this nonscientist public-relations simpleton.
We do not fight cowards, we do not fight mythical Scandian berserkers, we not fight simpletons.
Well, Adela could not be such a simpleton as to be driven entirely counter to her inclinations in an affair of so much importance.
She repeated this with slow elocution, as though her callers were children or simpletons.
You monks twist Nature up with holy words, and try to disguise what the eeriest simpleton can see.
If grownups wished to regard me as a bed-wetter, that I could accept with an inner shrug of the shoulders, but that I should have to behave like a simpleton year in year out was a source of chagrin to Oskar and to his teacher as well.
I pity those simpletons who blame fortune and not themselves for their misfortunes.
I should make an exception in favour of a set of forty ignorant, lazy, vicious, idle, hypocritical scoundrels who live bad lives under the cloak of humility, and eat up the houses of the poor simpletons who provide for them, when they ought to be earning their own bread?
I remembered the country as quiet and queer, and the people in it either simpletons or gipsies.