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simple-minded Definition

simple-minded (-mīndid)

adjective

  1. artless; unsophisticated; simple-hearted
  2. foolish; stupid
  3. mentally retarded

simple-minded Related Forms
simple-mindedly adverb simple-mindedness noun
simple-minded Synonyms

simple-minded

modif.

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.