Simplify

Quick meaning: Simplify is a verb meaning (transitive) To make simpler, either by reducing in complexity, reducing to component parts, or making easier to understand.

Meaning

(transitive) To make simpler, either by reducing in complexity, reducing to component parts, or making easier to understand.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive) To become simpler.

Example Sentences

Quizzed on simplifying fares, Heaton-Harris said the Government had inherited a "mix of ticketing and unbelievable, interesting fares up and down the system, and we do want to simplify them".

In ancient times there existed in the region of the Tung-chia River 佟佳江 in present Liaoning a people called Kao-chü-li 高句驪. In the fifth century they moved their capital to P’ing-jang. The name of the country was simplified to Kao-li 高麗 (Korea).

Thus, throughout the nineteenth century, linguists generally held that more grammatically complex languages were older and that languages tended to simplify over time—the four grammatical cases of German as contrasted with the seven of Latin, for example.

Word Forms

• simplifies
• simplifying
• simplified

Synonyms for simplify

Depending on context, synonyms include decomplexify, decomplicate, uncomplicate, reduce.

Antonyms for simplify

Common opposites include perplex, complicate.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include reduce, reductionist, rationalize, rationalise, streamlining, convenience.

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