simple
1. any herbaceous plant having medicinal properties
• Usage Domain:
archaism, archaicism
• Hypernyms:
herb, herbaceous plant
2. a person lacking intelligence or common sense
• Syn:
simpleton
• Hypernyms:
person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
• Hyponyms:
airhead, dimwit, nitwit, half-wit, doofus,
dingbat, dumbbell, dummy, dope, boob, booby,
pinhead, fool, sap, saphead, muggins, tomfool,
idiot, imbecile, cretin, moron, changeling, retard,
idiot savant, nebbish, nebbech, nincompoop, poop, ninny,
scatterbrain, forgetful person, schlemiel, shlemiel, schlepper, shlepper,
schlep, shlep, schnook, shnook, sheep, space cadet,
square, lame, stupid, stupid person, stupe, dullard,
dolt, pudding head, pudden-head, poor fish, pillock, subnormal,
twerp, twirp, twit
1. having few parts;
not complex or complicated or involved (Freq. 56)
- a simple problem
- simple mechanisms
- a simple design
- a simple substance
• Ant:
complex
• Similar to:
simplex, simplistic, unanalyzable, undecomposable, uncomplicated, unsophisticated
• See Also:
easy, plain, unsubdivided
• Derivationally related forms:
simpleness, simplicity
• Attrubites:
complexity, complexness
2. easy and not involved or complicated (Freq. 10)
- an elementary problem in statistics
- elementary, my dear Watson
- a simple game
- found an uncomplicated solution to the problem
• Syn:
elementary, uncomplicated, unproblematic
• Similar to:
easy
• Derivationally related forms:
simpleness, simplicity
3. apart from anything else;
without additions or modifications (Freq. 4)
- only the bare facts
- shocked by the mere idea
- the simple passage of time was enough
- the simple truth
• Syn:
bare, mere
• Similar to:
plain
4. exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity (Freq. 2)
- childlike trust
- dewy-eyed innocence
- listened in round-eyed wonder
• Syn:
childlike, wide-eyed, round-eyed, dewy-eyed
• Similar to:
naive, naif
• Derivationally related forms:
simpleness, simplicity
5. lacking mental capacity and subtlety (Freq. 1)
• Syn:
dim-witted, simple-minded
• Similar to:
retarded
• Derivationally related forms:
simplicity (for: simple-minded), simpleness
6. (botany) of leaf shapes;
of leaves having no divisions or subdivisions
• Syn:
unsubdivided
• Ant:
compound
• Similar to:
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, needled, two-needled,
three-needled, four-needled, five-needled, 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:
smooth
• Derivationally related forms:
simplicity
• Topics:
botany, phytology
7. unornamented
- a simple country schoolhouse
- her black dress--simple to austerity
• Similar to:
plain
• Derivationally related forms:
simpleness, simplicity
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