Synonyms of the word

acerate

• n. (chemistry) A combination of aceric acid with a salifiable base.
• adj. Acerose; needle-shaped (long and pointed).

acerose

• adj. (botany) Having the nature of chaff; chaffy.
• adj. (botany) needle-shaped, having a sharp, rigid point, as the leaf of the pine.

acicular

• adj. Needle-shaped; slender like a needle or bristle.
• adj. Having sharp points like needles.

needle-shaped

• adj. shaped like a needle.

simple

• adj. Uncomplicated; taken by itself, with nothing added.
• adj. Without ornamentation; plain.
• adj. Free from duplicity; guileless, innocent, straightforward.
• adj. Undistinguished in social condition; of no special rank.
• adj. (now rare) Trivial; insignificant.
• adj. (now colloquial) Feeble-minded; foolish.
• adj. (heading, technical) Structurally uncomplicated.
• adj. (obsolete) Mere; not other than; being only.
• n. (medicine) A preparation made from one plant, as opposed to something made from more than one plant.
• n. (obsolete) A term for a physician, derived from the medicinal term above.
• n. (logic) A simple or atomic proposition.
• n. (obsolete) Something not mixed or compounded.
• n. (weaving) A drawloom.
• n. (weaving) Part of the apparatus for raising the heddles of a drawloom.
• n. (Roman Catholicism) A feast which is not a double or a semidouble.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, archaic) To gather simples, i.e., medicinal herbs.