simple

adj

1. easy, facile, effortless, like falling off a log, Inf. hands down, Sl. no sweat, Inf. soft, Sl. cushy, Music. semplice, Scot. eath; Inf. a snap, Inf. a breeze, Sl. cinchy, Sl. a cinch; understandable, comprehensible, intelligible, clear, lucid; obvious, evident, unmistakable; uncomplicated, uninvolved, manageable, wieldly, controllable.

2. plain, homely, shirtsleeve, down-home, informal, casual, unceremonious; natural, unaffected, unpretentious, unpretending; modest, unassuming.

3. attic, classic, clean, neat, trim; unembellished, unadorned, unarrayed, untrimmed, undecorated.

4. fundamental, basic, basal, radical, root, underlying; rudimentary, rudimental, inchoate, imperfect, undeveloped; introductory, preparatory, proemial, preliminary, prefatory; embryonic, embryonal, germinal, genetic, genetical, nascent, incipient, beginning.

5. single, uncombined, uncompounded, uncomplex, simplex; pure, unalloyed, unmixed, unblended; sole, only, alone, mere; bare, scarce, deficient, insufficient.

6. guileless, artless, uncontrived, candid, open, aboveboard, true-dealing; undissembling, undissem-bled, uncorrupted, unbought; sincere, honest, true, decent, fair, equitable, righteous, upright; straightforward, Inf. square, direct, unevasive, frank, blunt; unconditional, unqualified, absolute; ingenuous, naive, credulous, credent, believing, trusting, trustful, gullible; innocent, childlike, wholesome, unsophisticated, green, rustic.

7. ordinary, common, commonplace, prosaic, plebian, household, everyday, of the garden variety; mediocre, middling, average; humble, subservient, subordinate, lowly, inferior, meek; mean, low, base; insignificant, unimportant, inconsequential, trivial, trifling, paltry.

8. ignorant, unknowing, unknowledgeable, unaware; unlearned, unversed, uneducated, untutored, untaught; stupid, witless, brainless, unintelligent, feebleminded, feeble, Inf. dumb, Inf. moronic, Sl. dopey; duncish, duncical, doltish, cloddish, oafish, block-headed, boneheaded, thickskulled, Sl. lunkheaded; obtuse, dense, bovine, dull, dull-witted, Sl. dim-witted; retarded, slow, purblind, limited.

9. simple-minded, senseless, nonsensical, foolish, idiotic, imbecilic, imbecile, absurd, asinine, fatuous, Sl. loony; silly, inane, pointless, Inf. nutty, Sl. goofy; featherbrained, scatterbrained, rattlebrained, rattleheaded; irrational, insensate, illogical, unreasoning, unreasonable, Sl. wacky.

n

10. ignoramus, idiot, imbecile, halfwit; fool, simpleton. See simpleton(defs. 1, 2).