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Simpleton vs Nitwit - What's the difference?

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Simpleton is a related term of nitwit.


As nouns the difference between simpleton and nitwit

is that simpleton is (pejorative) a simple person lacking common sense while nitwit is a scatterbrained or stupid person.

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")

    nitwit

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A scatterbrained or stupid person.

    • Synonyms

    * See also