simple-minded

British  

adjective

1. stupid; foolish; feeble-minded

2. unsophisticated; artless

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Other Word Forms

• simple-mindedly adverb
• simple-mindedness noun

Example Sentences

One is the committee’s single-minded, indeed simple-minded, focus on the direct effect of the proposals on the federal deficit and national debt.

From Los Angeles Times

Wolff added, "It is a simple-minded argument based on the false premise that the comparably large bureaucracies of mega-corporations and governments either do not exist or do not matter."

From Salon

"This morning, ascend above the hate, the vitriol, and the simple-minded ideas that ignite violence," she said.

From BBC

Xist consists of RNA, a substance best known for being a simple-minded messenger that shuttles genes' instructions for making proteins to the intracellular machines that make them.

From Science Daily

All of this underlying dramatic texture is possible because Kaurismäki uses actors capable of developing salt-of-the-earth types beyond mere simple-minded objects of pity.

From Los Angeles Times