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simple-mindedly

simple-mindedly adverb: in a simple-minded manner. Lacking sophistication or intelligence.

Adverb

simple-mindedly (comparative more simple-mindedly, superlative most simple-mindedly)

  1. In a simple-minded manner. Lacking sophistication or intelligence.
    • The essay is governed by a kind of primitive historicism that single-mindedly and even simple-mindedly strives to identify Hamlet with James.1988, Julia Reinhard Lupton, Thinking with Shakespeare: Essays on Politics and Life, →ISBN, pages 71–72

Forms of simple-mindedly

comparativemore simple-mindedly
superlativemost simple-mindedly

Origin of simple-mindedly

From simple-minded + -ly.

Questions about simple-mindedly

What does simple-mindedly mean?
Simple-mindedly means in a simple-minded manner. Lacking sophistication or intelligence.
What part of speech is simple-mindedly?
Simple-mindedly is an adverb.

Words near simple-mindedly in the dictionary

  1. simple-hearted
  2. simple-heartedly
  3. simple-heartedness
  4. simple-lifeish
  5. simple-minded
  6. simple-mindedly
  7. simple-mindedness
  8. simplectic
  9. simpled
  10. simplehearted
  11. simpleheartedly

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