Synonyms of the word

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.

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.

acuminate

• adj. Tapering to a point; pointed.
• adj. (botany, mycology) Tapering to a long point at its apex.
• v. (transitive) To render sharp or keen; to sharpen.
• v. (intransitive) To end in or come to a sharp point.

apiculate

• adj. (botany) Having a short, sharply pointed tip.

bare

• adj. Minimal; that is or are just sufficient.
• adj. Naked, uncovered.
• adj. Having no supplies.
• adj. Having no decoration.
• adj. Having had what usually covers (something) removed.
• adj. (Britain, slang, not comparable) A lot or lots of.
• adj. With head uncovered; bareheaded.
• adj. Without anything to cover up or conceal one's thoughts or actions; open to view; exposed.
• adj. (figuratively) Mere; without embellishment.
• adj. Threadbare; much worn.
• adv. (Britain, slang) Very; significantly.
• adv. Barely.
• adv. Without a condom.
• n. (‘the bare’) the surface, the (bare) skin.
• n. Surface; body; substance.
• n. (architecture) That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather.
• v. (transitive) To uncover; to reveal.
• v. (obsolete) simple past tense of bear.

bladelike

• adj. Resembling a blade.

caudate

• adj. (botany) Tapering into a long, tail-like extension at the apex.
• adj. (zoology) Having a tail.
• adj. (zoology) Of or pertaining to the Caudata order of amphibians.
• n. (zoology) Any member of the Caudata order of amphibians.

childlike

• adj. innocent and trustful; credulous; artless.
• adj. of, like, or suitable for a child.

cordate

• adj. (botany) Heart-shaped, with a point at the apex and a notch at the base.

cordiform

• adj. Shaped like a heart; cordate.

cuneate

• adj. (biology) wedge-shaped.
• adj. (botany) wedge-shaped, with the narrow part at the base.
• adj. (botany) having straight, or almost straight sides meeting at the apex or base.

deltoid

• n. (anatomy) The deltoid muscle, a triangular muscle on the human shoulder.
• n. (anatomy) The deltoid ligament, a triangular ligament on the human ankle.
• adj. In the shape of the upper case Greek letter delta Δ; triangular.
• adj. Of, or connected with the deltoid muscle.
• adj. (botany, of leaves) Of a triangular or roughly triangular shape and attached to the stem via the side.

dewy-eyed

• adj. Having eyes with a moist, glistening appearance, especially as indicating that one is on the verge of…
• adj. (figuratively) Naive or innocent in the manner of a child.
• adj. Excessively nostalgic.

dim-witted

• adj. Being a dimwit; stupid; foolish; simple.

dolabriform

• adj. Shaped like the head of an axe or hatchet.

easy

• adj. (now rare except in certain expressions) Comfortable; at ease.
• adj. Requiring little skill or effort.
• adj. Causing ease; giving comfort, or freedom from care or labour.
• adj. Free from constraint, harshness, or formality; unconstrained; smooth.
• adj. (informal, pejorative, of a person) Consenting readily to sex.
• adj. Not making resistance or showing unwillingness; tractable; yielding; compliant.
• adj. (finance, dated) Not straitened as to money matters; opposed to tight.
• adv. In a relaxed or casual manner.
• adv. In a manner without strictness or harshness.
• adv. Used an intensifier for large magnitudes.
• adv. Not difficult, not hard.
• n. Something that is easy.
• v. (rowing) Synonym of easy-oar.

elementary

• adj. Relating to the basic, essential or fundamental part of something.
• adj. Relating to an elementary school.
• adj. (physics) Relating to a subatomic particle.
• adj. (archaic) Sublunary; not celestial; belonging to the sublunary sphere, to which the four classical elements…

elliptic

• adj. (geometry) Of or pertaining to an ellipse.
• adj. (mathematics) Of or pertaining to a broad field of mathematics that originates from the problem of calculating…
• adj. (mathematics, in combination, of certain functions, equations and operators) That has coefficients satisfying…

elongate

• adj. lengthened, extended.
• adj. slender.
• v. To make long or longer by pulling and stretching; to make elongated.
• v. To depart to, or be at, a distance; especially, to recede apparently from the sun, as a planet in its…
• v. (obsolete) To remove further off.

ensiform

• adj. shaped like a sword blade.

half-witted

• adj. Having a low intelligence; dim-witted.

hastate

• adj. Of, or pertaining to a spear.
• adj. (botany, of leaves) Shaped similarly to a halberd, with pointed lobes pointed outward from the base.

heart-shaped

• adj. Having the traditional shape of a heart (♥), that is pointed at one end and indented at the opposite side.

herb

• n. Any green, leafy plant, or parts thereof, used to flavour or season food.
• n. Plant whose roots, leaves or seeds, etc. are used in medicine.
• n. (slang, euphemistic) Marijuana.
• n. (botany) A plant whose stem is not woody and does not persist beyond each growing season.
• n. (obsolete) Grass; herbage.

individual

• n. A person considered alone, rather than as belonging to a group of people.
• n. (law) A single physical human being as a legal subject, as opposed to a legal person such as a corporation.
• n. An object, be it a thing or an agent, as contrasted to a class.
• n. (statistics) An element belonging to a population.
• adj. Relating to a single person or thing as opposed to more than one.
• adj. Intended for a single person as opposed to more than one person.

lancelike

• adj. Resembling a lance.

lanceolate

• adj. (botany, mycology) Having the general shape of a lance; much longer than wide, with the widest part lower…
• adj. (technical) Of a class of knapped stone points, made without a stem, shoulders, notches, or other features…

linear

• adj. Having the form of a line; straight.
• adj. Of or relating to lines.
• adj. Made in a step-by-step, logical manner.
• adj. (botany, of leaves) Long and narrow, with nearly parallel sides.
• adj. (physics) A type of length measurement involving only one spatial dimension (as opposed to area or volume).

lyrate

• adj. Shaped like a lyre.
• adj. (botany, of leaves) Having a large terminal lobe and smaller rounded lobes toward its base.

mere

• n. (obsolete) the sea.
• n. (dialectal or literary) A pool; a small, shallow lake or pond; marsh. Also included in place names such…
• n. boundary, limit; a boundary-marker; boundary-line.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To limit; bound; divide or cause division in.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To set divisions and bounds.
• v. (cartography) To decide upon the position of a boundary; to position it on a map.
• adj. (obsolete) famous.
• adj. (obsolete) Pure, unalloyed.
• adj. (obsolete) Nothing less than; complete, downright.
• adj. Just, only; no more than, pure and simple, neither more nor better than might be expected.
• n. a Maori war-club.

mortal

• adj. Susceptible to death by aging, sickness, injury, or wound; not immortal.
• adj. Causing death; deadly, fatal, killing, lethal (now only of wounds, injuries etc.).
• adj. Fatally vulnerable; vital.
• adj. Of or relating to the time of death.
• adj. Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly.
• adj. Human; belonging to man, who is mortal.
• adj. Very painful or tedious; wearisome.
• adj. (Britain, slang) Very drunk; wasted; smashed.
• n. A human; someone susceptible to death.

naif

• adj. Naive.
• n. One who is naive.

naive

• adj. Lacking worldly experience, wisdom, or judgement; unsophisticated; against better judgement.
• adj. (of art) Produced in a simple, childlike style, deliberately rejecting sophisticated techniques.
• adj. (computing) Intuitive; designed to follow the way ordinary people approach a problem.

needle-shaped

• adj. shaped like a needle.

needled

• adj. Covered or armored with needles.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of needle.

oblanceolate

• adj. (botany, of leaves) Of a reversed lanceolate shape: attached to the stem by the pointed end, with the…

oblong

• adj. Longer than wide or wider than long; not square.
• adj. Roughly rectangular or ellipsoidal.
• n. Something with an oblong shape.
• n. A rectangle having length greater than width or width greater than length.

obovate

• adj. (botany, mycology) Shaped like an egg, with the broad extremity located away from the base.

obtuse

• adj. (now chiefly botany, zoology) Blunt; not sharp.
• adj. Intellectually dull or dim-witted.
• adj. Indirect or circuitous.
• adj. Of sound: deadened or muffled.
• adj. (geometry) Of an angle: greater than 90 degrees but less than 180 degrees.
• adj. (geometry) Of a triangle: with one obtuse angle.

orbicular

• adj. Circular or spherical in shape; round.

orbiculate

• adj. spherical or circular; orbicular.
• n. That which is orbiculate, especially a solid whose vertical section is oval and whose horizontal section…

ovate

• adj. Shaped like an egg.
• adj. (botany) Egg-shaped, with the broadest extremity near the base.

pandurate

• adj. (botany, of leaves) Having a shape reminiscent of a fiddle; obovate with a pair of sinuous indentations…

panduriform

• adj. (botany, rare) Pandurate.

peltate

• adj. Shield-shaped; scutiform.
• adj. (botany, of leaves) Having the petiole attached to the lower surface instead of the margin.

perfoliate

• adj. (botany, of leaves) Appearing to have the stem passing through the blade.

person

• n. An individual; usually a human being.
• n. The physical body of a being seen as distinct from the mind, character, etc.
• n. (law) Any individual or formal organization with standing before the courts.
• n. (law) The human genitalia; specifically, the penis.
• n. (grammar) A linguistic category used to distinguish between the speaker of an utterance and those to whom…
• n. (biology) A shoot or bud of a plant; a polyp or zooid of the compound Hydrozoa, Anthozoa, etc.; also,…
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate.
• v. (transitive, gender-neutral) To man.

plain

• adj. (now rare, regional) Flat, level.
• adj. Simple.
• adj. Obvious.
• adj. Open.
• adj. Not unusually beautiful; unattractive.
• adv. (colloquial) Simply.
• n. (rare, poetic) A lamentation.
• v. (reflexive, obsolete) To complain.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, now rare, poetic) To lament, bewail.
• n. An expanse of land with relatively low relief.
• n. A battlefield.
• n. (obsolete) A plane.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To level; to raze; to make plain or even on the surface.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To make plain or manifest; to explain.

reniform

• adj. Shaped like a kidney; having a circular or roughly circular shape with a notch.

retarded

• adj. Delayed; delayed in development, hindered; impeded.
• adj. (psychology, now offensive, dated) Having mental retardation; mentally deficient or underdeveloped.
• adj. (psychology, now offensive, dated) Specifically, having an IQ below 70.
• adj. (colloquial, derogatory, offensive) Stupid, dumb.
• adj. (physics) Designating a parameter of an electromagnetic field which is adjusted to account for the finite…
• v. simple past tense and past participle of retard.

sagittate

• adj. Shaped like an arrowhead, with one point a one end, and two points at the other.
• adj. (botany, of leaves) Shaped like an arrowhead, with two pointed lobes extending downward from the base.

sagittiform

• adj. A biological descriptor, applied to leaves and some animals, meaning "to have the form of an arrowhead,…

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.

simple-minded

• adj. Lacking subtlety or sophistication.
• adj. Lacking mental capacity; feeble-minded.

simpleton

• n. (pejorative) A simple person lacking common sense.

simplex

• adj. Single, simple; not complex.
• adj. (telecommunications) unidirectional.
• n. (geometry, algebraic topology) An analogue in any dimension of the triangle or tetrahedron: the convex…
• n. (linguistics) A simple word, one without affixes.

smooth

• adj. Having a texture that lacks friction. Not rough.
• adj. Without difficulty, problems, or unexpected consequences or incidents.
• adj. Bland; glib.
• adj. Flowing or uttered without check, obstruction, or hesitation; not harsh; fluent.
• adj. (of a person) Suave; sophisticated.
• adj. (of an action) Natural; unconstrained.
• adj. (of a motion) Unbroken.
• adj. (chiefly of water) Placid, calm.
• adj. (of an edge) Lacking projections or indentations; not serrated.
• adj. (of food or drink) Not grainy; having an even texture.
• adj. (of a beverage) Having a pleasantly rounded flavor; neither rough nor astringent.
• adj. (mathematics, of a function) Having derivatives of all finite orders at all points within the function’s…
• adj. (mathematics, of a number) That factors completely into small prime numbers.
• adj. (linguistics, classical studies, of a vowel) Lacking marked aspiration.
• adj. (of muscles, medicine) Involuntary and non-striated.
• adv. Smoothly.
• n. Something that is smooth, or that goes smoothly and easily.
• n. A smoothing action.
• n. A domestic animal having a smooth coat.
• n. A member of an anti-hippie fashion movement in 1970s Britain.
• n. (statistics) The analysis obtained through a smoothing procedure.
• v. To make smooth or even.
• v. To make straightforward.
• v. (statistics, image processing, digital audio) To capture important patterns in the data, while leaving…

somebody

• pron. Some unspecified person.
• n. A recognised person, a celebrity.

someone

• pron. Some person.
• n. A partially specified but unnamed person.

soul

• n. (religion, folklore) The spirit or essence of a person usually thought to consist of one's thoughts and…
• n. The spirit or essence of anything.
• n. Life, energy, vigor.
• n. (music) Soul music.
• n. A person, especially as one among many.
• n. An individual life.
• n. (mathematics) A kind of submanifold involved in the soul theorem of Riemannian geometry.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To endow with a soul; to furnish with a soul or mind.
• v. (obsolete) To afford suitable sustenance.

spatulate

• adj. Shaped like a spatula; having a rounded, flattened extremity.
• adj. (botany, of leaf) Having a broad, flat end and tapering into a narrower base.
• v. To treat or mix with a spatula.
• v. To incise the end of a pliable cylindrical structure such that the cut end can be splayed apart and flattened.

swordlike

• adj. resembling a sword.

unanalyzable

• adj. Alternative spelling of unanalysable.

uncomplicated

• v. simple past tense and past participle of uncomplicate.
• adj. Simple, not complicated, basic.

undecomposable

• adj. Unable to be decomposed.

unlobed

• adj. not lobed.

unproblematic

• adj. Not controversial or problematic.

unsophisticated

• adj. Not sophisticated; lacking sophistication.

wide-eyed

• adj. Having large or wide-open eyes.
• adj. (by extension) Astonished or surprised.