Word Meanings - SIMPLETON - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A person of weak intellect; a silly person.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SIMPLETON)

• Blockhead
• Dolt
• dunderhead
• jolterhead
• dunce
• ninny
• numskull
• dullard
• simpleton
• booby
• loggerhead
• ignoramus

Related words: (words related to SIMPLETON)

• DUNDERHEAD
  A dunce; a numskull; a blockhead. Beau. & Fl.
• BOOBYISH
  Stupid; dull.
• DUNCE
  One backward in book learning; a child or other person dull or weak in intellect; a dullard; a dolt. I never knew this town without dunces of figure. Swift. Note: The schoolmen were often called, after their great leader Duns Scotus, Dunsmen or
• BOOBY
  1. A dunce; a stupid fellow. A swimming bird related to the common gannet, and found in the West Indies, nesting on the bare rocks. It is so called on account of its apparent stupidity. The name is also sometimes applied to other species
• NUMSKULL
  A dunce; a dolt; a stupid fellow. They have talked like numskulls. Arbuthnot.
• LOGGERHEADED
  Dull; stupid. Shak. A rabble of loggerheaded physicians. Urquhart.
• SIMPLETON
  A person of weak intellect; a silly person.
• BLOCKHEADED
  Stupid; dull.
• IGNORAMUS
  We are ignorant; we ignore; -- being the word formerly written on a bill of indictment by a grand jury when there was not sufficient evidence to warrant them in finding it a true bill. The phrase now used is, "No bill," "No true bill,"
• BLOCKHEAD
  A stupid fellow; a dolt; a person deficient in understanding. The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head. Pope.
• JOLTERHEAD; JOLTHEAD
  A dunce; a blockhead. Sir T. North.
• NINNYHAMMER
  A simpleton; a silly person. Addison.
• BLOCKHEADISM
  That which characterizes a blockhead; stupidity. Carlyle.
• LOGGERHEAD
  An upright piece of round timber, in a whaleboat, over which a turn of the line is taken when it is running out too fast. Ham. Nav. Encyc. (more info) 1. A blockhead; a dunce; a numskull. Shak. Milton. 2. A spherical mass of iron, with
• DUNCEDOM
  The realm or domain of dunces. Carlyle.
• DUNCERY
  Dullness; stupidity.
• LOGGERHEADS
  The knapweed.
• NUMSKULLED
  Stupid; doltish.
• DULLARD
  A stupid person; a dunce. Shak. -- a.
• NINNY
  A fool; a simpleton. Shak. (more info) niño, niña, child, infant, It. ninna, ninna nanna, lullably, prob.