Simpleton vs Dope - What's the difference?
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(pejorative) A simple person lacking common sense.
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(uncountable) Any viscous liquid or paste, such as a lubricant, used in preparing a surface.
(uncountable) An absorbent material used to hold a liquid.
(uncountable, aeronautics) Any varnish used to coat a part, such as an airplane wing or a hot-air balloon in order to waterproof, strengthen,
(uncountable, slang) Any illicit or narcotic drug that produces euphoria or satisfies an addiction; particularly heroin.
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(uncountable, slang) Information.
* What's the latest dope on the stock market?
(countable, slang) A stupid person.
(slang) To affect with drugs.
To treat with dope (lubricant, etc.).
(electronics) To add a dopant such as arsenic to (a pure semiconductor such as silicon).
(slang) To use drugs.
(slang) Great, amazing or extraordinary.
Simpleton is a related term of dope.
As a noun simpleton
is (pejorative) a simple person lacking common sense.As a verb dope is
.As an adjective dope is
doped.simpleton
English
Noun
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- The stranger had crossed a sacred line. He had mentioned the men's mothers. Nothing could get him out of a beating now, even the fact that he was obviously a simpleton'. Albeit a ' simpleton with a good vocabulary.
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* (wikipedia "simpleton")dope
English
Noun
- Here's a cure for all your troubles, here's an end to all distress. It's the old dope peddler, with his powdered happiness.''
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* dope fiend * dope sheet * dope slap/dope-slapVerb
Adjective
(er)- That party was dope !