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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Lacking in subtlety or sophistication; artless or naive.
  • adjective Stupid or silly; foolish.
  • adjective Mentally impaired.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Lacking intelligence or penetration; unsophisticated; artless.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Artless; guileless; simple-hearted; undesigning; unsuspecting; devoid of duplicity.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Lacking subtlety or sophistication
  • adjective Lacking mental capacity; feeble-minded

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective lacking subtlety and insight
  • adjective lacking mental capacity and subtlety

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