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Scatterbrain vs Simpleton - What's the difference?

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Scatterbrain is a related term of simpleton.


As nouns the difference between scatterbrain and simpleton

is that scatterbrain is a flighty, disorganized or forgetful person while simpleton is (pejorative) a simple person lacking common sense.

scatterbrain

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A flighty, disorganized or forgetful person.

    • Related terms

    * scatterbrained

    simpleton

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (pejorative) A simple person lacking common sense.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=May 15 , author=Scott Tobias , title=Film: Reviews: The Dictator , work=The Onion AV Club citation , page= , passage=Baron Cohen’s new creation (and the previous ones, too) has its roots in Groucho characters like Captain Jeffrey T. Spaulding, Otis B. Driftwood, and Prof. Quincy Adams Wagstaff, and the concept of a pompous simpleton running a rogue nation has obvious parallels to Duck Soup’s Rufus T. Firefly, who leads the country of Fredonia to a needless and highly preventable war. }}
  • * 2001 — , Artemis Fowl , p 92
    • 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.

    External links

    * (wikipedia "simpleton")