- simple - having few parts; not complex or complicated or involved; "a simple problem"; "simple mechanisms"; "a simple design"; "a simple substance"
Antonyms: complex, analyzable, decomposable, Byzantine, convoluted, intricate, involved, knotty, tangled, tortuous, colonial, complicated, composite, compound, daedal, Gordian, interlacing, interlinking, interlocking, interwoven, labyrinthine, labyrinthian, mazy, multifactorial, multiplex, thickening
- elementary, simple, uncomplicated, unproblematic - 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"
Antonyms: difficult, hard (indirect, via easy)
- bare, mere, simple - apart from anything else; without additions or modifications; "only the bare facts"; "shocked by the mere idea"; "the simple passage of time was enough"; "the simple truth"
Antonym: fancy (indirect, via plain)
- childlike, wide-eyed, dewy-eyed, simple - exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity; "childlike trust"; "dewy-eyed innocence"; "simple courtesy"
Antonym: sophisticated (indirect, via naive)
- dim-witted, half-witted, simple, simple-minded - lacking mental capacity and devoid of subtlety
Antonym: precocious (indirect, via retarded)
- simple, unsubdivided - (botany) of leaf shapes; of leaves having no divisions or subdivisions
Antonyms: compound, bilobate, bilobated, bilobed, binate, bipinnate, cleft, dissected, conjugate, decompound, even-pinnate, abruptly-pinnate, paripinnate, incised, lobed, lobate, odd-pinnate, imparipinnate, parted, palmate, palm-shaped, pedate, pinnate, pinnated, pinnatifid, pinnatisect, quinquefoliate, ternate, trifoliate, trifoliolate, trifoliated, trilobate, trilobated, trilobed, bipartite, bipinnatifid, palmatifid, tripinnate, tripinnated, tripinnatifid
- simple - not elaborate in style; unornamented; "a simple country schoolhouse"; "her black dress--simple to austerity"
Antonym: fancy (indirect, via plain)
- simple - any herbaceous plant having medicinal properties
--1 is a kind of herb, herbaceous plant
- simpleton, simple - a person lacking intelligence or common sense
--2 is a kind of person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, human, soul
--2 has particulars: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 - simpleton, simple - a person lacking intelligence or common sense