| Noun | 1. | simpleton - a person lacking intelligence or common senseairhead - a flighty scatterbrained simpleton; "she's a total airhead"; "every airhead on a big salary rushed out to buy one" dingbat - a silly empty-headed person; "you would be a dingbat even to try it"; "yet here he was with an upper class dingbat who just happened to be married to his sister" blockhead, bonehead, dunce, dunderhead, fuckhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, lunkhead, muttonhead, numskull, shithead - these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence idiot savant - person who is mentally retarded in general but who displays remarkable aptitude in some limited field (usually involving memory) schnook, shnook - (Yiddish) a gullible simpleton more to be pitied than despisedi; "don't be such an apologetic shnook" 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 subnormal - a person of less than normal intelligence | |