simpleton
Noun
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A person lacking intelligence or common sense (synset 110618762)
subtypes:
- airhead - a flighty scatterbrained simpleton
- dimwit, doofus, half-wit, nitwit - a stupid incompetent person
- dingbat - a silly empty-headed person
- boob, booby, dope, dumbbell, dummy, pinhead - an ignorant or foolish person
- fool, muggins, sap, saphead, tomfool - a person who lacks good judgment
- changeling, cretin, half-wit, idiot, imbecile, moron, retard - a person of subnormal intelligence
- idiot savant - person who is mentally retarded in general but who displays remarkable aptitude in some limited field (usually involving memory)
- nebbech, nebbish - (Yiddish) a timid unfortunate simpleton
- nincompoop, ninny, poop - a stupid foolish person
- forgetful person, scatterbrain - a flighty and disorganized person
- schlemiel, shlemiel - (Yiddish) a dolt who is a habitual bungler
- schlep, schlepper, shlep, shlepper - (Yiddish) an awkward and stupid person
- schnook, shnook - (Yiddish) a gullible simpleton more to be pitied than despised
- sheep - a timid defenseless simpleton who is readily preyed upon
- space cadet - someone who seems unable to respond appropriately to reality (as if under the influence of some narcotic drug)
- lame, square - someone who doesn't understand what is going on
- dolt, dullard, pillock, poor fish, pudden-head, pudding head, stupe, stupid, stupid person - a person who is not very bright
- subnormal - a person of less than normal intelligence
- twerp, twirp, twit - someone who is regarded as contemptible
same as: simple
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