simple-minded
simple-minded
Definition
simple-minded (-mīnd′id)
adjective
- artless; unsophisticated; simple-hearted
- foolish; stupid
- mentally retarded
sim′ple-mind′edly adverb
sim′ple-mind′edness noun
simple-minded
Synonyms
simple-minded
Usage Examples
Modifies a noun
- approach: The major reason for this rather simple-minded approach to document retrieval is a very good one.
- view: Yet in doing so he adopts no simple-minded view of what constitutes boundaries or their recognition.
- woman: She was a simple-minded woman who poisoned her husband with arsenic in November 1846.
- man: The person in charge of training these candidates was very much worried about the newly recruited simple-minded man.
- slogan: This is why we should not be intimidated by simple-minded slogans from California.
- notion: The EU - a simple-minded naive notion which can only be a disaster for everything that's good about each member country.
Modifying Another Word
- rather: Michel lived in the village and was thought by the locals to be rather simple-minded but they were missing the point.
- too: They are not the evil face of organized religion, just those too simple-minded to avoid being drawn into it.
- relatively: Please let me stress again that these notes explored ways of working on ealier, relatively simple-minded browser versions.
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