n. Function: adjective
1
Synonyms: NATURAL 5, artless, ingenuous, naive, unaffected, unartful, unartificial, unschooled, unsophisticated, unstudied
Related Words: childish, childlike; amateur, green, unexperienced; trusting; ||square
2
Synonyms: PLAIN 1, discreet, inelaborate, modest, unbeautified, undecorated, unelaborate, unornamented, unostentatious, unpretentious
Antonyms: elaborate
3 actually or apparently deficient in intelligence FF1C; a poor simple woman easily duped FF1E;
Synonyms: asinine, brainless, ||buffle-headed, fatuous, foolish, insensate, mindless, nitwitted, senseless, sheepheaded, silly, soft, spoony, unintelligent, unwitty, weak-headed, weak-minded, witless; compare RETARDED , STUPID 1
Related Words: amateur, green, inexperienced, inexpert; credulous, gullible; childish, childlike, naive; ignorant, illiterate, uneducated, unschooled, untaught; crass, dense, dopey, dull, dumb, slow, stupid; doting, feebleminded, idiotic, retarded, simpleminded
Contrasted Words: able, competent; alert, clever, keen; bright, intelligent, understanding
Antonyms: wise
4
Synonyms: RETARDED , backward, dim-witted, dull, feebleminded, half-witted, imbecile, moronic, simpleminded, slow-witted
5
Synonyms: PURE 2, absolute, perfect, pure and simple, sheer, unadulterated, unalloyed, unmitigated, unmixed, unqualified
Related Words: inelaborate, stark; bald, bare, mere; fundamental, uncompounded
6
Synonyms: EASY 1, effortless, facile, light, royal, smooth, untroublesome
Related Words: incomplex, incomplicate
Idioms: simple as ABC
Antonyms: complex, complicated