Simpleton vs Numskull - What's the difference?
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(pejorative) A simple person lacking common sense.
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(pejorative) A dunce, mentally dull or stupid person.
(pejorative) A label for a person who refuses to learn or grow mentally.
A traditional name for a fool who serves as the butt of jokes about stupidity.
Simpleton is a related term of numskull.
In pejorative|lang=en terms the difference between simpleton and numskull
is that simpleton is (pejorative) a simple person lacking common sense while numskull is (pejorative) a label for a person who refuses to learn or grow mentally.As nouns the difference between simpleton and numskull
is that simpleton is (pejorative) a simple person lacking common sense while numskull is (pejorative) a dunce, mentally dull or stupid person.simpleton
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Noun
(en noun)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. }}
- 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")numskull
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Alternative forms
* numbskullNoun
(en noun)- That numskull will never learn how to compose a letter.
