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词汇 simple-minded
释义

Definition of simple-minded in English:

simple-minded

adjective
  • Having or showing very little intelligence or judgement.

    头脑简单的;迟钝的;无知的

    simple-minded theories
    he is a simple-minded minion
    Example sentencesExamples
    • That the classical Olympic spirit emphasized international peace is lost in such simple-minded political propaganda.
    • But these non-newsworthy-factoids have spawned appallingly simple-minded reflections.
    • For the kids the knee-jerk tourist products are wooden toys, but they are lumpish, boring objects, unlikely to appeal to any but the most simple-minded of toddlers.
    • It's a simple-minded solution to complex problems.
    • The films I've done in recent years, they're meant to offer a more complex analysis of the situations, and are less simple-minded.
    • While the rural people have a more simple-minded attitude, they are also used to living in harmony with their neighbours who have to face the same difficulties as they do.
    • Because they work on simple-minded theories and are totally oblivious of facts.
    • The failure of such simple-minded thinking has also been proven by its total failure for Cuba, which has survived under American sanctions for more than four decades.
    • Any other outlook is just simple-minded fantasy.
    • No amount of simple-minded faith will change that.
    • Celebrity worship may be simple-minded, self-indulgent and craven, but heads of state should not expect to get off so lightly.
    • This single-minded, indeed simple-minded, artistic manifesto seems crude and dated, but the fiction it led him to produce is still fresh.
    • Not one could grasp, or even imagine, the possibility that our simple-minded Palaeolithic ancestors were capable of art.
    • Even today it's edgy cinema, but to write it off as the product of a deranged mind, or to suggest that it endorses the violence it depicts, is simple-minded at best.
    • We can make an assessment of how well these groups are travelling in a simple-minded way by looking at how they progress through training - which students get in?
    • Joe's a bright guy with insightful views on many things, but here he sounds, well, downright simple-minded.
    • What's a simple-minded rural poet to do about it?
    • And some of those aren't so young, but still simple-minded.
    • This is apart from the government's and opposition's cynical calculation that its simple-minded stance will win it votes in the coming election.
    • Alas, this robust and simple-minded certainty that Reason rather than Faith was the wave of the future is all but spent now.
    Synonyms
    having a disability, wheelchair-using, paralysed

Derivatives

  • simple-mindedly

  • adverb
    • So, I asked simplemindedly, is life better or worse since the fall of Ceausescu?
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He subsequently proved himself simplemindedly optimistic.
      • He thought that classic computationalist cognitive science is too simplemindedly mechanistic.
      • However, she still had chosen to simplemindedly follow Cindy.
  • simple-mindedness

  • nounˌsɪmp(ə)lˈmʌɪndɪdnəs
    • His stupidity (we all have some, usually a lot) is of a far more complex and destructive type than pure simplemindedness.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • As I look back at those old strips, I see some pretty dumb simplemindedness.
      • ‘Oh my God,’ they reply in the tone reserved for my most egregious displays of parental simplemindedness.
      • In a bunk house filled with other rootless job-seekers, Lennie's burden of simplemindedness leads him to commit a hideous crime.
      • Hero's plotline is simple to the point of simplemindedness.

Rhymes

broadminded, like-minded, single-minded, small-minded, tough-minded
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