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Simpleton

A person of weak intellect; a silly person.

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Booby 76% connected

A dunce; a stupid fellow.

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Changeling 76% connected

One who, or that which, is left or taken in the place of another, as a child exchanged by fairies.

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Cretin 76% connected

One afflicted with cretinism.

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Dolt 76% connected

A heavy, stupid fellow; a blockhead; a numskull; an ignoramus; a dunce; a dullard.

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Dullard 76% connected

A stupid person; a dunce.

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Dummy 76% connected

Silent; mute; noiseless; as a dummy engine.

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Fool 76% connected

A compound of gooseberries scalded and crushed, with cream; -- commonly called gooseberry fool.

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Half-wit 76% connected

A foolish; a dolt; a blockhead; a dunce.

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Idiot 76% connected

A man in private station, as distinguished from one holding a public office.

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Imbecile 76% connected

Destitute of strength, whether of body or mind; feeble; impotent; esp., mentally wea; feeble-minded; as, hospitals for the imbecile and insane.

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Lame 76% connected

Moving with pain or difficulty on account of injury, defect, or temporary obstruction of a function; as, a lame leg, arm, or muscle.

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Nincompoop 76% connected

A fool; a silly or stupid person.

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Ninny 76% connected

A fool; a simpleton.

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Poop 76% connected

See 2d Poppy.

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Retard 76% connected

To keep delaying; to continue to hinder; to prevent from progress; to render more slow in progress; to impede; to hinder; as, to retard the march of…

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Sap 76% connected

The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.

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Saphead 76% connected

A weak-minded, stupid fellow; a milksop.

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Sheep 76% connected

Any one of several species of ruminants of the genus Ovis, native of the higher mountains of both hemispheres, but most numerous in Asia.

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Square 76% connected

The corner, or angle, of a figure.

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Stupe 76% connected

Cloth or flax dipped in warm water or medicaments and applied to a hurt or sore.

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Stupid 76% connected

Very dull; insensible; senseless; wanting in understanding; heavy; sluggish; in a state of stupor; -- said of persons.

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Subnormal 76% connected

That part of the axis of a curved line which is intercepted between the ordinate and the normal.

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Tomfool 76% connected

A great fool; a trifler.

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twerp 76% connected

A foolish or annoying person

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Twit 76% connected

To vex by bringing to notice, or reminding of, a fault, defect, misfortune, or the like; to revile; to reproach; to upbraid; to taunt; as, he twitted…

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Individual 76% connected

Not divided, or not to be divided; existing as one entity, or distinct being or object; single; one; as, an individual man, animal, or city.

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Mortal 76% connected

Subject to death; destined to die; as, man is mortal.

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Person 76% connected

A character or part, as in a play; a specific kind or manifestation of individual character, whether in real life, or in literary or dramatic represe…

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Somebody 76% connected

A person unknown or uncertain; a person indeterminate; some person.

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Soul 76% connected

Sole.

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Simple 92% connected

Single; not complex; not infolded or entangled; uncombined; not compounded; not blended with something else; not complicated; as, a simple substance;…

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