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English

Adjective

Lacking subtlety or sophistication
Lacking mental capacity; feeble-minded

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Simple-minded \Sim"ple-mind`ed\, a.
Artless; guileless; simple-hearted; undesigning;
unsuspecting; devoid of duplicity. --Blackstone. --
Sim"ple-mind`ed*ness, n.
[1913 Webster]

WordNet simple-minded
adj 1: lacking subtlety and insight; "a simple-minded argument"
2: lacking mental capacity and devoid of subtlety [syn: dim-witted,
half-witted, simple]

Moby Dictionary
arrested , artless , babbling , backward , blithering , bluff , blunt ,
born yesterday , burbling , candid , childlike , confiding ,
crackbrained , cracked , crazy , cretinistic , cretinous , dim-witted ,
direct , dithering , driveling , drooling , dull , feebleminded , frank ,
guileless , half-baked , half-witted , idiotic , imbecile , imbecilic ,
ingenu , ingenuous , innocent , maundering , mentally defective ,
mentally deficient , mentally handicapped , mentally retarded ,
mongoloid , moronic , naive , not all there , open , openhearted ,
outspoken , plain , retarded , simple , simplehearted , simpletonian ,
sincere , single-hearted , single-minded , slobbering , slow ,
slow-witted , subnormal , trustful , trusting , unguarded , unreserved ,
unsophisticated , unsuspicious , unwary