Nouns (2)
simple
n. any herbaceous plant having medicinal properties
simpleton
n. a person lacking intelligence or common sense
Verbs (0)
Adverbs (0)
Adjectives (21)
simple
adj. cleverly simple; used of a solution to a problem e.g.
simple
adj. unornamented; "a simple country schoolhouse"; "her black dress--simple to austerity"
simple
adj. having few parts; not complex or complicated or involved; "a simple problem"; "simple mechanisms"; "a simple design"; "a simple substance"
unstudied
adj. free of artificiality: "simple unstudied charm"
basic
adj. (underived)
humble
adj. unornamented; "a simple country schoolhouse"; "her black dress--simple to austerity"
common
adj. to be expected; standard; "common decency"
unsubdivided
adj. (botany) of leaf shapes; of leaves having no divisions or subdivisions
elementary, uncomplicated, unproblematic
adj. easy and not involved or complicated; "an elementary problem in statistics"; "elementary, my dear Watson"; "a simple game"; "found an uncomplicated solution to the problem"
mere, bare
adj. unornamented; "a simple country schoolhouse"; "her black dress--simple to austerity"
half-witted, dim-witted, simple-minded
adj. lacking mental capacity and devoid of subtlety
plain, modest, unostentatious
adj. free from pomp or affectation; "comfortable but modest cottages"; "a simple rectangular brick building"; "a simple man with simple tastes"
childlike, dewy-eyed
adj. exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity; "childlike trust"; "dewy-eyed innocence"; "listened in round-eyed wonder"
Fuzzynyms (143)
silence, quiet
n. the absence of sound; "he needed silence in order to sleep"; "the street was quiet"
daredevil, madcap, hothead, swashbuckler, lunatic, harum-scarum
n. a reckless impetuous irresponsible person
eccentric, oddball, geek, eccentric person
n. a person with an unusual or odd personality
unadorned, undecorated
adj. not decorated with something to increase its beauty or distinction
effortless
adj. requiring or apparently requiring no effort; "the swallows glided in an effortless way through the busy air"
simple, elementary, uncomplicated, unproblematic
adj. easy and not involved or complicated; "an elementary problem in statistics"; "elementary, my dear Watson"; "a simple game"; "found an uncomplicated solution to the problem"
smooth, painless
adj. lacking obstructions or difficulties; "the bill's path through the legislature was smooth and orderly"
unadorned, undecorated
adj. not decorated with something to increase its beauty or distinction
easy
adj. performing adroitly and without effort; "a facile hand"
informal
adj. not formal; "conservative people unaccustomed to informal dress"; "an informal free-and-easy manner"; "an informal gathering of friends"
retiring, unassuming
adj. not arrogant or presuming; "unassuming to a fault, skeptical about the value of his work"; "a shy retiring girl"
unpretentious
adj. lacking pretension or affectation; "an unpretentious country church"; "her quiet unpretentious demeanor"
friendly
adj. easy to understand or use; "user-friendly computers"; "a consumer-friendly policy"; "a reader-friendly novel"
humble
adj. marked by meekness or modesty; not arrogant or prideful; "a humble apology"; "essentially humble...and self-effacing, he achieved the highest formal honors and distinctions"- B.K.Malinowski
plain, patent, manifest, clear, evident, apparent
adj. clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment; "the effects of the drought are apparent to anyone who sees the parched fields"; "evident hostility"; "manifest disapproval"; "patent advantages"; "made his meaning plain"; "it is plain that he is no reactionary"; "in plain view"
commonplace, trite, bromidic, hackneyed, shopworn, threadbare, timeworn, tired, well-worn
adj. repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse; "bromidic sermons"; "his remarks were trite and commonplace"; "hackneyed phrases"; "a stock answer"; "repeating threadbare jokes"; "parroting some timeworn axiom"; "the trite metaphor `hard as nails'"
typical
adj. exhibiting the qualities or characteristics that identify a group or kind or category; "a typical American girl"; "a typical suburban community"; "the typical car owner drives 10,000 miles a year"; "a painting typical of the Impressionist school"; "a typical romantic poem"; "a typical case of arteritis"
insignificant, undistinguished
adj. not worthy of notice
dull, uninteresting
adj. arousing no interest or attention or curiosity or excitement; "a very uninteresting account of her trip"
tedious, humdrum, monotonous
adj. tediously repetitious or lacking in variety; "a humdrum existence; all work and no play"; "nothing is so monotonous as the sea"
routine, stock, ready-made, cliched
adj. repeated regularly without thought or originality; "ready-made phrases"
effortless
adj. requiring or apparently requiring no effort; "the swallows glided in an effortless way through the busy air"
simple
adj. having few parts; not complex or complicated or involved; "a simple problem"; "simple mechanisms"; "a simple design"; "a simple substance"
easy
adj. performing adroitly and without effort; "a facile hand"
clear
adj. free from cloudiness; allowing light to pass through; "clear water"; "clear plastic bags"; "clear glass"; "the air is clear and clean"
unadorned, undecorated
adj. not decorated with something to increase its beauty or distinction
basic, fundamental, ultimate, elemental
adj. furthest or highest in degree or order; utmost or extreme; "the ultimate achievement"; "the ultimate question"; "man's ultimate destiny"; "the ultimate insult"; "one's ultimate goal in life"
plain, simple, modest, unostentatious
adj. free from pomp or affectation; "comfortable but modest cottages"; "a simple rectangular brick building"; "a simple man with simple tastes"
plain, patent, manifest, clear, evident, apparent
adj. clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment; "the effects of the drought are apparent to anyone who sees the parched fields"; "evident hostility"; "manifest disapproval"; "patent advantages"; "made his meaning plain"; "it is plain that he is no reactionary"; "in plain view"
Spartan
adj. of or relating to or characteristic of Sparta or its people
absolute, rank, gross, perfect, utter, sheer, pure, stark, arrant, double-dyed, out-and-out, sodding, staring
adj. without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers; "an arrant fool"; "a complete coward"; "a consummate fool"; "a double-dyed villain"; "gross negligence"; "a perfect idiot"; "pure folly"; "what a sodding mess"; "stark staring mad"; "a thoroughgoing villain"; "utter nonsense"; "the unadulterated truth"
vernacular, common, vulgar, nonliterary
adj. being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language; "common parlance"; "a vernacular term"; "vernacular speakers"; "the vulgar tongue of the masses"; "the technical and vulgar names for an animal species"
ordinary
adj. not exceptional in any way especially in quality or ability or size or degree; "ordinary everyday objects"; "ordinary decency"; "an ordinary day"; "an ordinary wine"
dim, dull, slow, dumb, dense, obtuse
adj. slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity; "so dense he never understands anything I say to him"; "never met anyone quite so dim"; "although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick"- Thackeray; "dumb officials make some really dumb decisions"; "he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse"; "worked with the slow students"
stupid, foolish, headless, brainless
adj. not using intelligence
slow
adj. not moving quickly; taking a comparatively long time; "a slow walker"; "the slow lane of traffic"; "her steps were slow"; "he was slow in reacting to the news"; "slow but steady growth"
mindless, vacuous, asinine, fatuous, inane
adj. devoid of intelligence
mere, simple, bare
adj. unornamented; "a simple country schoolhouse"; "her black dress--simple to austerity"
basic, fundamental, ultimate, elemental
adj. furthest or highest in degree or order; utmost or extreme; "the ultimate achievement"; "the ultimate question"; "man's ultimate destiny"; "the ultimate insult"; "one's ultimate goal in life"
plain, patent, manifest, clear, evident, apparent
adj. clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment; "the effects of the drought are apparent to anyone who sees the parched fields"; "evident hostility"; "manifest disapproval"; "patent advantages"; "made his meaning plain"; "it is plain that he is no reactionary"; "in plain view"
Spartan
adj. of or relating to or characteristic of Sparta or its people
absolute, rank, gross, perfect, utter, sheer, pure, stark, arrant, double-dyed, out-and-out, sodding, staring
adj. without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers; "an arrant fool"; "a complete coward"; "a consummate fool"; "a double-dyed villain"; "gross negligence"; "a perfect idiot"; "pure folly"; "what a sodding mess"; "stark staring mad"; "a thoroughgoing villain"; "utter nonsense"; "the unadulterated truth"
trusting
adj. inclined to believe or confide readily; full of trust; "great brown eye, true and trustful"- Nordhoff & Hall
frank, genuine
adj. not pretended; sincerely felt or expressed; "genuine emotion"; "her interest in people was unfeigned"; "true grief"
honest
adj. without dissimulation; frank; "my honest opinion"
Synonyms (109)
bijou
adj. small and elegant: "bijou villas"; "can Americans be persuaded to pay out dollars for bijou cars?"
dandified, dandyish, foppish
adj. affecting extreme elegance in dress and manner
luxury, deluxe, luxe, de luxe
adj. elegant and sumptuous; "a deluxe car"; "luxe accommodations"
fine, smart
adj. characterized by elegance or refinement or accomplishment; "fine wine"; "looking fine in her Easter suit"; "a fine gentleman"; "fine china and crystal"; "a fine violinist"; "the fine hand of a master"
high-class, high-toned
adj. pretentiously elegant; "a high-toned restaurant"
exquisite, recherche
adj. lavishly elegant and refined
neat, refined, tasteful
adj. free from what is tawdry or unbecoming; "a neat style"; "a neat set of rules"; "she hated to have her neat plans upset"
swank, ritzy, swanky
adj. luxuriously elegant
soigne, well-groomed, soigné
adj. polished and well-groomed; showing sophisticated elegance
austere, severe, chaste
adj. severely simple; "a stark interior"
mere, simple, bare
adj. unornamented; "a simple country schoolhouse"; "her black dress--simple to austerity"
featureless
adj. lacking distinguishing characteristics or features; "the featureless landscape of the steppe"
inelaborate, unelaborate
adj. not elaborate; lacking rich or complex detail
literal, pure and simple
adj. avoiding embellishment or exaggeration (used for emphasis); "it's the literal truth"
trim, tailored
adj. severely simple in line or design; "a neat tailored suit"; "tailored curtains"
easy
adj. posing no difficulty; requiring little effort; "an easy job"; "an easy problem"; "an easy victory"; "the house is easy to heat"; "satisfied with easy answers"; "took the easy way out of his dilemma"
plain
adj. not elaborate or elaborated; simple; "plain food"; "stuck to the plain facts"; "a plain blue suit"; "a plain rectangular brick building"
simple, unsubdivided
adj. (botany) of leaf shapes; of leaves having no divisions or subdivisions
guileless, honest
adj. free from guile; "his answer was simple and honest"
naive, unsophisticated
adj. inexperienced
primary, primitive
adj. not derived from or reducible to something else; basic; "a primary instinct"
retiring, unassuming
adj. not arrogant or presuming; "unassuming to a fault, skeptical about the value of his work"; "a shy retiring girl"
fair, middling, average, mediocre
adj. lacking exceptional quality or ability; "a novel of average merit"; "only a fair performance of the sonata"; "in fair health"; "the caliber of the students has gone from mediocre to above average"; "the performance was middling at best"
commonplace, trivial, banal
adj. obvious and dull; "trivial conversation"; "commonplace prose"
nondescript, characterless
adj. lacking distinct or individual characteristics; dull and uninteresting; "women dressed in nondescript clothes"; "a nondescript novel"
routine, usual, everyday, mundane, quotidian, workaday, unremarkable
adj. found in the ordinary course of events; "a placid everyday scene"; "it was a routine day"; "there's nothing quite like a real...train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute"- Anita Diamant
tolerable, indifferent, so-so
adj. being neither good nor bad; "an indifferent performance"; "a gifted painter but an indifferent actor"; "her work at the office is passable"; "a so-so golfer"; "feeling only so-so"; "prepared a tolerable dinner"; "a tolerable working knowledge of French"
run-of-the-mill, unexceptional
adj. not special in any way; "run-of-the-mill boxing"; "your run-of-the-mine college graduate"; "a unexceptional an incident as can be found in a lawyer's career"
rough
adj. of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped
simple
adj. having few parts; not complex or complicated or involved; "a simple problem"; "simple mechanisms"; "a simple design"; "a simple substance"
smooth
adj. of the margin of a leaf shape; not broken up into teeth
natural, casual
adj. not showing effort or strain; "a difficult feat performed with casual mastery"; "careless grace"
soft, cushy
adj. not burdensome or demanding; borne or done easily and without hardship; "what a cushy job!"; "the easygoing life of a parttime consultant"; "a soft job"
smooth, painless
adj. lacking obstructions or difficulties; "the bill's path through the legislature was smooth and orderly"
simplified
adj. made easy or uncomplicated
austere, severe, chaste
adj. severely simple; "a stark interior"
featureless
adj. lacking distinguishing characteristics or features; "the featureless landscape of the steppe"
inelaborate, unelaborate
adj. not elaborate; lacking rich or complex detail
literal, pure and simple
adj. avoiding embellishment or exaggeration (used for emphasis); "it's the literal truth"
simple
adj. unornamented; "a simple country schoolhouse"; "her black dress--simple to austerity"
trim, tailored
adj. severely simple in line or design; "a neat tailored suit"; "tailored curtains"
backward, feebleminded
adj. retarded in intellectual development
cretinous
adj. afflicted with cretinism
honest
adj. without pretensions; "worked at an honest trade"; "good honest food"
unpompous
adj. not pompous
artless, unsophisticated, unworldly
adj. not wise in the ways of the world; "either too unsophisticated or too honest to promise more than he could deliver"; "this helplessly unworldly woman"- Kate O'Brien
credulous
adj. showing a lack of judgment or experience; "so credulous he believes everything he reads"
green, unwary, unsuspecting, fleeceable, gullible
adj. naive and easily deceived or tricked; "at that early age she had been gullible and in love"
ignorant, inexperienced
adj. lacking practical experience or training
innocent, ingenuous
adj. lacking in sophistication or worldliness; "a child's innocent stare"; "his ingenuous explanation that he would not have burned the church if he had not thought the bishop was in it"
simple-minded
adj. lacking subtlety and insight; "a simple-minded argument"
Antonyms (78)
intellect, intellectual
n. a person who uses the mind creatively
dignified
adj. having or expressing dignity; especially formality or stateliness in bearing or appearance; "her dignified demeanor"; "the director of the school was a dignified white-haired gentleman"
sophisticated
adj. having or appealing to those having worldly knowledge and refinement and savoir-faire; "sophisticated young socialites"; "a sophisticated audience"; "a sophisticated lifestyle"; "a sophisticated book"
flash, gaudy, brassy, vulgar, flashy, cheap, loud, meretricious, tawdry, garish, gimcrack, tacky, trashy
adj. tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments"
fancy
adj. not plain; decorative or ornamented; "fancy handwriting"; "fancy clothes"
complex
adj. complicated in structure; consisting of interconnected parts; "a complex set of variations based on a simple folk melody"; "a complex mass of diverse laws and customs"
complicated
adj. difficult to analyze or understand; "a complicated problem"; "complicated Middle East politics"
difficult, hard
adj. not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure; "a difficult task"; "nesting places on the cliffs are difficult of access"; "difficult times"; "a difficult child"; "found himself in a difficult situation"; "why is it so hard for you to keep a secret?"
fancy
adj. not plain; decorative or ornamented; "fancy handwriting"; "fancy clothes"
byzantine, involved, tangled, knotty, tortuous, vermiculate, intricate, convoluted, labyrinthine
adj. highly complex or intricate; "the Byzantine tax structure"; "convoluted legal language"; "convoluted reasoning"; "the plot was too involved"; "a knotty problem"; "got his way by labyrinthine maneuvering"; "Oh, what a tangled web we weave"- Sir Walter Scott; "tortuous legal procedures"; "tortuous negotiations lasting for months"
labyrinthine, labyrinthian, mazy
adj. resembling a labyrinth in form or complexity; "a labyrinthine network of tortuous footpaths"
elaborate, intricate
adj. marked by complexity and richness of detail; "an elaborate lace pattern"
lacy, lacelike
adj. made of or resembling lace; "a lacy gown"; "a lacy leaf"
troublesome, unruly, fractious
adj. hard to manage; inclined to make trouble: "a difficult child"
trying, serious, distressful
adj. causing vexation or worry: "trying times"; "serious problems"
immodest
adj. having or showing an exaggerated opinion of your importance, ability, etc; "brash immodest boasting"
extraordinary
adj. beyond what is ordinary or usual; highly unusual or exceptional or remarkable; "extraordinary authority"; "an extraordinary achievement"; "her extraordinary beauty"; "enjoyed extraordinary popularity"; "an extraordinary capacity for work"; "an extraordinary session of the legislature"
compound
adj. of leaf shapes; of leaves composed of several similar parts or lobes
difficult, hard
adj. not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure; "a difficult task"; "nesting places on the cliffs are difficult of access"; "difficult times"; "a difficult child"; "found himself in a difficult situation"; "why is it so hard for you to keep a secret?"
troublesome, unruly, fractious
adj. hard to manage; inclined to make trouble: "a difficult child"
trying, serious, distressful
adj. causing vexation or worry: "trying times"; "serious problems"
fancy
adj. not plain; decorative or ornamented; "fancy handwriting"; "fancy clothes"
pretentious
adj. making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction; "a pretentious country house"; "a pretentious fraud"; "a pretentious scholarly edition"
elegant
adj. refined and tasteful in appearance or behavior or style; "elegant handwriting"; "an elegant dark suit"; "she was elegant to her fingertips"; "small churches with elegant white spires"; "an elegant mathematical solution--simple and precise and lucid"
flash, gaudy, brassy, vulgar, flashy, cheap, loud, meretricious, tawdry, garish, gimcrack, tacky, trashy
adj. tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments"
overblown, grandiloquent, pompous, pontifical, portentous
adj. puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek
sophisticated
adj. having or appealing to those having worldly knowledge and refinement and savoir-faire; "sophisticated young socialites"; "a sophisticated audience"; "a sophisticated lifestyle"; "a sophisticated book"
simple
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