simpleton

[ sim-puhl-tuhn ]
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nounSometimes Offensive.
  1. an ignorant, foolish, or silly person.

Origin of simpleton

1
First recorded in 1640–50; simple + -ton

Other words for simpleton

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How to use simpleton in a sentence

  • The imagination is more easily isolated from the other parts of the soul in young people and simpletons.

  • These simpletons who imagined she was going to settle down and stay in this little place all her life!

    Dry Fish and Wet | Anthon Bernhard Elias Nilsen

British Dictionary definitions for simpleton

simpleton

/ (ˈsɪmpəltən) /


noun
  1. a foolish or ignorant person

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