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simpleminded
Synonyms and Antonyms of simpleminded
- a simpleminded view of a complex problem
aw-shucks, dewy, dewy-eyed, green, ingenuous, innocent, naïf (or naif), naive (or naïve), primitive, simple, uncritical, unknowing, unsophisticated, unsuspecting, unsuspicious, unwary, unworldly, wide-eyed
critical, cynical, doubting, incredulous, skeptical, suspecting, suspicious, unconvinced
careful, cautious, guarded, leery (also leary), wary, watchful
down-to-earth, hardheaded, pragmatic (also pragmatical), realistic, sober
- scornful of their simpleminded belief that their parents would always be there to take care of them
absurd, asinine, balmy, brainless, bubbleheaded, cockeyed, crackpot, crazy, cuckoo, daffy, daft, dippy, dotty, fatuous, featherheaded, fool, foolish, half-baked, half-witted, harebrained, inept, insane, jerky, kooky (also kookie), loony (also looney), lunatic, lunkheaded, mad, nonsensical, nutty, preposterous, sappy, screwball, senseless, silly, stupid, tomfool, unwise, wacky (also whacky), weak-minded, witless, zany
airheaded, birdbrained, boobish, brain-dead, chowderheaded, chuckleheaded, clueless, dense, dim, dim-witted, doltish, dopey (also dopy), dorky [slang], dull, dumb, dunderheaded, empty-headed, fatuous, feebleminded, gormless [chiefly British], idiotic (also idiotical), imbecile (or imbecilic), knuckleheaded, lamebrain (or lamebrained), mindless, moronic, oafish, obtuse, opaque, pinheaded, simple, slow, slow-witted, soft, softheaded, thoughtless, thick, thickheaded, unintelligent, vacuous, witless
fallacious, illogical, invalid, irrational, nonrational, surd, unreasonable, unreasoning, unsound, weak
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