Simple

Quick meaning: Simple is an adjective meaning Uncomplicated; lacking complexity; taken by itself, with nothing added.

Meaning

Uncomplicated; lacking complexity; taken by itself, with nothing added.

More Meanings

1. Easy; not difficult.
2. Without ornamentation; plain.
3. Free from duplicity; guileless, innocent, straightforward.
4. Undistinguished in social condition; of no special rank.
5. (now colloquial, euphemistic) Feeble-minded; foolish.
6. (heading, technical) Structurally uncomplicated.
7. (archaic) Trivial; insignificant.

Example Sentences

Must thou trust Tradition's simple tongue?

Full many fine men go upon my score, as simple as I stand here, and I trust them.

There is no simple way to define precisely a complex arrangement of parts, however homely the object may appear to be.

We are engaged in a great work, a treatise on our river fortifications, perhaps? But since when did army officers afford the luxury of amanuenses in this simple republic?

Word Forms

• simpler
• simplest
• simples
• simpling
• simpled

Synonyms for simple

Depending on context, synonyms include onefold, austere, bare, bare-bones, bargain, basic.

Antonyms for simple

Common opposites include subtle, challenging, hard, arduous, nasty, difficult.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include uncomplicated, unpretentious, simplex, simplistic, bare, unproblematic.

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