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simpleminded

Or ·-Ի·

[sim-puhl-mahyn-did, -mahyn-]

adjective

  1. free of deceit or guile; artless or unsophisticated.

  2. lacking in mental acuteness or sense.

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  3. mentally deficient.

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Other Word Forms

  • simplemindedly adverb
  • simplemindedness noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of simpleminded1

First recorded in 1735–45; simple + minded
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They use that intelligence — which is part of what corrupted them — to prey on more simpleminded folk who are virtuous.

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"The classic American conspiracy theory always has an evil leader or group of leaders who are unfathomably powerful. These evildoers are brainiacs, they're incredibly intelligent, but they use that intelligence to prey on more simpleminded folk who are virtuous."

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Weizenbaum warned that the “reckless anthropomorphization of the computer” — that is, treating it as some sort of thinking companion — had produced a “simpleminded view ... of intelligence.”

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The story of a good-looking blond buck from Texas fired with simpleminded dreams of making it as a stud hustler in Manhattan could easily have become another of the gamy sexual permutations which the screen is so earnestly examining for us these days.

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“Why would we raise pigs here?” he responded, incredulous at my simpleminded queries.

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