Simpleton

Definition: Simpleton

Simpleton

Noun

1. A person lacking intelligence or common sense.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "simpleton" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Etymology: Simpleton \Sim"ple*ton\, noun. [Compare to the French expression simplet, Italian semplicione.]. (references)

Slang in 1811

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Synonym: Simpleton

Fool

Noun: fool, idiot, tomfool, wiseacre, simpleton, witling, dizzard, donkey, ass; ninny, ninnyhammer; chowderhead, chucklehead; dolt, booby, Tom Noddy, looby, hoddy-doddy, noddy, nonny, noodle, nizy, owl; goose, goosecap; imbecile; gaby; radoteur, nincompoop, badaud, zany; trifler, babbler; pretty fellow; natural, niais.

Crosswords: Simpleton

Wake up already. Never gonna happen! Only a complete loser would ever hook up with you, unless she's a simpleton like Harmony or a nut sack like Druscilla (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

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Books

• A Simpleton (reference)

• Adventures of a Simpleton (reference)

• Plays Extravagant: Too True to Be Good/the Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles/the Millionairess (reference)

• The Mermaid and the Simpleton. (reference)

• The Simpleton (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Ending with "simpleton": mock-simpleton.

Albanian

teveqel (dolt, dull, dummy, fool, foolish, imbecile, innocent, noodle, zany, zombie), tarallak (buzzard, dull, dull fellow, idiot, stupid), loço (booby, fool, ninny), leshko (coot, dodo, dupe, gander, goon, goose, greener, greenhorn, gudgeon, gullibility, gullible, innocent, loon, lummox, mooncalf, muggins, mutt, nincompoop, ninny, nitwit, noddy, noodle, numskull, sap, sap-head, Sawney, simp, tom-noddy), guhaku (gawk person), guhak. (various references)

Arabic 

‏مغفل (dense, dolt, dullard, dumb, dunce, dunderhead, dupe, fat-witted, fool, foolish, licentious, moronic, mutton-headed, nincompoop, ninny, nitwit, numskull, pointless, rubbishy, silly, simple, simple minded, soft-headed, softy, stupid, thick-headed, weak-minded), ‏المغفل (boob, booby, daw, dullard, dunce, dunderhead, dupe, featherbrain, gaby, gander, gawk, idiot, jackass, lout, lunkhead, moron, mug, mugful, mutt, nincompoop, ninny, noodle, numskull, sucker, zany), ‏الساذج (dupe, gaby, goose, gull, lamb, loon, mutt, nincompoop, ninny, pigeon, villain, zany). (various references)

Bulgarian 

глупак (bird brained, blinker, boeotian, bonehead, boob, booby, calf, chuckle-head, clod, clot, coot, dodo, dotterel, driveler, dummy, fathead, flat, fool, gaby, gawk, goof, goon, gowk, greenhorn, gull, hammerhead, jackass, jobbernowl, lack-brain, lame brain, leather-head, lunkhead, muggins, mutt, mutton head, ninny, nitwit, noddy, noodle, numskull, nutter, oaf, pudding-head, pumpkin-head, sap, sap-head, schmo, schnook, sheep's head, silly, simp, simple, spoon, stupe, stupid, thickhead, tomfool, twit, witling, wittol, zany, zombie), абдал (fool). (various references)

Czech

naivka, hlupák (ass, blockhead, booby, chump, dolt, dotterel, dottrel, dunce, dupe, fool, gaby, half wit, idiot, ignoramus, jobbernowl, leather-head, loggerhead, pudding-head, sap-head, thick-head, tomfool), blbeèek (natural, nincompoop, ninny). (various references)

Farsi 

ساده لوح (Credulous, Dupe, Mug, Nincompoop, Oaf, Sawney, Sot), احمق (Asinine, Cockeyed, Cockscomb, Daft, Dense, Dopey, Dult, Fool, Gawky, Gosling, Hick, Inane, Loggerhead, Loony, Natural, Nincompoop, Noodle, Sawney, Senseless, Sot, Spoony, Stupid, Sucker, Unmeaning), ابله (Asinine, Blister, Dolt, Doodle, Doter, Fool, Imbecile, Mome, Screwball, Silly). (various references)

Finnish

tyhmyri (stupid fellow), hupsu (crazy, dunce, foolish, idiotic, silly), hölmö (fool, idiot). (various references)

French

nigaud (simple), niais (simple, simple minded). (various references)

German

Einfaltspinsel (half wit, patsy, simpletons, tomfool), Pinsel (brush, paint brush, paintbrush, simpletons, tuft of hair, Willie), Einfallspinsel (simpletons). (various references)

Greek 

κορόιδο (dupe, fool, gull, mug, rook, simp, stooge, sucker), βλάκασ (booby, chump, coot, dimwit, dolt, dope, duffer, gander, goof, goon, gudgeon, ignoramus, imbecile, jackass, lummox, moron, mutt, nincompoop, noodle, oaf, simp, slob, stupid, sucker, tomfool, zany), βλαξ (goon, gudgeon, imbecile, lummox, simp, slob, stupid, tomfool, zany), μωρόσ (crass, driveller, fatuous, food, fool, foolish, goofy, idiotic, moron, ninny, simp, spoony, vacuous, witless, zany), χαζόσ (muggins, nincompoop, ninny, nitwit, nitwitted, rubberneck, simp, simperer, soft-headed, stupid, twit, witless). (various references)

Hebrew 

פתי (dupe, gullible, moron, noodle, simp, simple), כסיל (dolt, dupe, fool, moron, oaf), טפש (fool, goof, goofy, imbecile, nonsensical, silly, stupid, unwise), רפ�" שכל (feeble minded, simp). (various references)

Hungarian

együgyű (blunt-witted, daw, fool, green, half-witted, puerile, simple). (various references)

Italian

sempliciotto (Cully, gaby, muggins, nincompoop, simple simon), minchione (muggins, spoony), babbeo (dupe, fathead, fool, Looby, muff, muggins, sucker). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

薄鈍 (fool, half-wit), 薄ら馬鹿 (dimwit, sluggard), 阿房 (fool, idiot), 阿呆 (fool, idiot), 表六玉 (nincompoop), 二本�' (henpecked husband, sniveler), 兵六玉 (nincompoop). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ひょうろく� ま (nincompoop), うすのろ (fool, half-wit), うすらばか (dimwit, sluggard), にほ�"ぼう (henpecked husband, sniveler), あほう (fool, idiot). (various references)

Manx

thoot (boob, bumpkin, cry baby, idiot, lubber, namby-pamby, oaf), lag-hustagh, giare-cheeayllagh (halfwit, halfwitted, simple), bolvane (idiot, stupid person), blebbin (buffoon, earlobe, laughing stock, pawn, silly person, sucker, zany). (various references)

Pig Latin

impletonsay.(various references)

Portuguese

simplório (calvish, cuddy, cully, dotterel, gaby, gander, goose, juggins, lummox, muggins, mutt, natural, nincompoop, ninny, ninny-hammer, noddy, noodle, oaf, pigeon, prodigy, sawney, simp, simple, simple-minded, soft, softhead, softy, spoon, spoony, sucker, weak, woodcock, zany), tolo (addle-brained, addled, corny, cuddy, daft, dull, finical, fool, foolish, gaby, goat, gowk, gull, hard-hearted, inept, insane, insensate, looby, loony, mad, madman, naïve, nincompoop, ninny, ninny-hammer, nitwit, pigeon, pumpkin-head, screwy, silly, softhead, softy, spoon, spoony, stock, stupe, stupid, tomfool, tom-noddy, vacuous, wacky, witless), pateta (batty, booby, calf, chuckle-head, chump, clod-poll, coot, cracky, crazy, cuddy, daft, dolt, doodle, driveller, dumb, dupe, fanny, fat-head, fool, gander, gawk, goof, goofy, goose, idiot, jackanapes, jay, jolterhead, josser, juggins, know-nothing, loggerhead, looby, lubber-head, lummox, mooncalf, mutt, mutton-headed, natural, nincompoop, ninny, ninny-hammer, nitwitted, noddy, noodle, numskull, oaf, poop, prodigy, pudding-head, rattle-brained, rattle-headed, sawney, silly, simp, slob, softhead, softy, spoony, stupid, sucker, tomfool, tom-noddy, zany), papalvo. (various references)

Romanian

zevzec (addle-brain, addle-brained, addle-headed, blockhead, thick-headed), prost (ass, bad, badly, beef-witted, blinkard, blockhead, blunt, booby, calf, cheap, clumsy, cock eyed, common, dead, dolt, doltish, donkey, dull, dullard, dumb, dunce, dunderhead, flat, fool, foolish, good for nothing, goof, goon, goose, Goosey, gull, harmful, idiot, idiotish, inhospitable, lousy, lubber-head, miserable, nincompoop, ninny, nitwit, nitwitted, noddy, noodle, numskull, numskulled, oaf, oafish, pin head, poor, poorly, silly, simple, snipe, soft, soft-headed, sorry, spoony, stupid, thoughtless, unfavorable, unfavourable, wretched, zombie), neghiob (blockhead, booby, clumsy, dolt, dullard, foolish, lubber-head, sheep, sheepish, silly, stupid, zany), naiv (artless, credulous, deceivable, dupable, dupe, green, gull, gullible, naïve, naif, puerile, silly, simple minded, sincere, verdant), nãtãrãu (buffer, calf, donkey, fool, goofy, jay, sheep, sheepish, witless), haplea (blockhead, booby, duffer, sucker). (various references)

Russian 

простак (boob, coot, gaby, goose, greener, gull, innocent, juggins, lummox, man of Gotham, mug, muggins, noddy, noodle, patsy, sap, simp, tomnoddy, wise man of Gotham). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

glupak (chuckle-head, chump, dolt, jobbernowl, jolterhead, juggins, lame brain, noodle). (various references)

Spanish

simplón (nitwit). (various references)

Swedish

stolle (fool, jerk, lunatic, Nelly), dummerjöns (juggins, simp, simple simon), dumbom (bonehead, dunce, fool, gaby, goof, goon, idiot, innocent, jobbernowl, jolterhead, lack-brain, Looby, loon, ninny, ninny-hammer, nitwit, poop, pumpkin-head, sap, silly, simp, simple simon, stupid, zany). (various references)

Thai

คนโง่ (apeth, berk, birdbrain, bozo, chucklehead, chump, clod, clodpole, div, doughnut, dove, dummy, dunce, featherbrain, fool, half-wit, ignoramus, loon, muddlehead, mug, muggins, muppet, mut, nerd, nincompoop, nit, noddy, oaf, schlepp, silly, simp, simple, thicko). (various references)

Turkish

safdil (simple minded, simple-hearted), keriz (credulous guy, fall guy), avanak (clot, cluck, fool, gullible, nincompoop, ninny, rube, sap), alık (booby, chump, dimwitted, dolt, gunsel, nincompoop, scatterbrained, scatty, wooden). (various references)

Turkmen 

tentek (silly, stupid). (various references)

Ukrainian

простак (gaby, gawky, greener, innocent, josser, juggins, lummox, muggins, ninny, ninny-hammer, noddy, pigeon, prune, simp, simple, softy). (various references)

Vietnamese 

anh thộn (simp, spooney, spoony), anh quỷnh, anh ngốc. (various references)

Welsh

gwirionyn. (various references)

baro. (various references)

gonzo. (various references)

doudo. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "simpleton": simpletons. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Simpleton" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Misperton. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: milepost, nepotism, pimentos, polemist, potlines, toplines.

-2 letters: emptins, entoils, epsilon, impones, leptons, limpest, limpets, lomeins, loments, meltons, mestino, moisten, mopiest, motiles, optimes, peonism, pimento, pinoles, pintles, pintoes, piolets, pistole, plenism, plenist, pointes, pontils, postmen, potline, sentimo, topline.

-3 letters: elints, eloins, enlist, entoil, eonism, impels, impone, impose, impost, inlets, inmost, insole, instep, lemons, lentos.

+1 letter: simpletons.

+2 letters: completions, compliments, despoilment, trampolines.

+3 letters: amylopectins, despoilments, implementors, impoliteness, kleptomanias, polycentrism, trampoliners.

+4 letters: compellations, complexations, conceptualism, consumptively, entomophilies, entomophilous, impersonality, incompatibles, kleptomaniacs, metropolitans, misemployment, neoplasticism, phenomenalist, phentolamines, polycentrisms, splenectomies, splenectomize, sportsmanlike.

+5 letters: accomplishment, compatibleness, compensability, compensational, conceptualisms, contemplations, contemplatives, exceptionalism, impolitenesses, incompleteness, megalopolitans, misemployments, neoplasticisms, nephelometries, operationalism, outmanipulates, paleomagnetism, paleomagnetist, perambulations, phenomenalists, pinealectomies, pneumatologies, polymerisation, postmillennial, recompilations, spermatogonial, splenectomized, splenectomizes, supernormality.