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| ADJECTIVE | 1 | simple | Having few parts |
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| 2 | simple, elementary, uncomplicated, unproblematic | Easy and not involved or complicated | |
| 3 | simple, bare, mere | Apart from anything else | |
| 4 | simple, childlike, wide-eyed, dewy-eyed | Exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity | |
| 5 | simple, dim-witted, half-witted, simple-minded | Lacking mental capacity and devoid of subtlety | |
| 6 | simple, unsubdivided | (botany) of leaf shapes | |
| 7 | simple | Not elaborate in style | |
| NOUN | 1 | simple | Any herbaceous plant having medicinal properties |
| 2 | simple, simpleton | A person lacking intelligence or common sense |
| Sounds | sih'mpahl |
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| Rhymes | abdominal, Abel, able, and 2059 more rhymes in ahl at the HyperDic website... |
| Meaning | Having few parts. Not complex or complicated or involved. |
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| Examples | "a simple problem"; "simple mechanisms"; "a simple design"; "a simple substance" |
| Attribute of | complexity, complexness |
| Similar | elemental, ultimate; oversimplified, simplistic; simplex; simplified; unanalyzable, undecomposable; uncomplicated, unsophisticated |
| See also | easy; plain; simple, unsubdivided |
| Contrary | complex |
| Meaning | Easy and not involved or complicated. |
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| Examples | "a simple game" |
| Synonyms | elementary, uncomplicated, unproblematic |
| Similar to | easy |
| Meaning | Apart from anything else. Without additions or modifications. |
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| Examples | "the simple passage of time was enough"; "the simple truth" |
| Synonyms | bare, mere |
| Similar to | plain |
| Adverbs | simply |
| Meaning | Exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity. |
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| Examples | "simple courtesy" |
| Synonyms | childlike, wide-eyed, dewy-eyed |
| Similar to | naive, naif |
| Meaning | Lacking mental capacity and devoid of subtlety. |
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| Synonyms | dim-witted, half-witted, simple-minded |
| Similar to | retarded |
| Meaning | (botany) of leaf shapes. Of leaves having no divisions or subdivisions. |
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| Synonyms | unsubdivided |
| Category | botany, phytology |
| Similar | acerate, acerose, acicular, needle-shaped; acuminate; apiculate; caudate; cordate, heart-shaped, cordiform; cuneate, wedge-shaped; deltoid; dolabriform, dolabrate; elliptic; ensiform, sword-shaped, swordlike, bladelike; hastate, spearhead-shaped; lanceolate, lancelike; linear, elongate; lyrate; obtuse; oblanceolate; oblong; obovate; orbiculate, orbicular; ovate; pandurate, panduriform, fiddle-shaped; peltate, shield-shaped; perfoliate; reniform, kidney-shaped; sagittate, sagittiform, arrow-shaped; spatulate, spatula-shaped; unlobed |
| See also | simple; smooth; rough |
| Contrary | compound |
| Meaning | Not elaborate in style. Unornamented. |
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| Examples | "a simple country schoolhouse"; "her black dress--simple to austerity" |
| Similar to | plain |
| Meaning | Any herbaceous plant having medicinal properties. |
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| Broader | herb, herbaceous plant |
| Usage | archaism, archaicism |
| Meaning | A person lacking intelligence or common sense. |
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| Synonyms | simpleton |
| Narrower | airhead; dimwit, nitwit, half-wit, doofus; dingbat; dumbbell, dummy, dope, boob, booby, pinhead; dunce, dunderhead, numskull, blockhead, bonehead, lunkhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, muttonhead, shithead, fuckhead; fool, sap, saphead, muggins, tomfool; idiot, imbecile, cretin, moron, changeling, half-wit, retard; idiot savant; nebbish, nebbech; nincompoop, poop, ninny; scatterbrain, forgetful person; schlemiel, shlemiel; schnook, shnook; sheep; space cadet; square, lame; stupid, stupid person, dullard, dolt, pudding head, pudden-head, poor fish, pillock; subnormal; twerp, twirp, twit |
| Broader | person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, human, soul |