Simple

Antonyms for simple:

intelligent, complex, smart, hard, convoluted, difficult, sophisticated, exacting, intricate, savvy, precocious, involved, ornate, sapient, abstruse, devious, unintelligible, complicated, nimble.

Synonyms for simple:

Sense 4

mutual, crowded, Among, web, fussy, embarrass.

Sense 5

busy, With, unworldly.

Sense 6

comfortable, personal, knot.

Sense 7

involve, slow, backward, ease.

Sense 8

express.

Sense 9

perfect.

Sense 10

dry.

commonplace

common.

easy

soft.

explicit

pellucid.

genuine

unaffected.

gullible

credulous.

immature

rudimentary.

in name only

nominal.

meek

humble.

naive

naive, unsuspecting, obvious.

natural

untaught.

plain

homespun, unvarnished, tasteless.

primitive

savage.

rural

pastoral.

tailor-made

tailored.

trite

mickey mouse.

unassuming

unimposing.

uncivilized

primitive.

undecorated

functional, spartan, plainly.

unpretentious

homely.

unstable

unsettled.

absolute (adjective)

entire.

artless (adjective)

careless.

childlike, innocent (adjective)

guileless, naive, unsophisticated, ingenuous, sincere, honest, unschooled, bald, unstudied, childish, artless, stark, natural, green, basic, direct, frank, unvarnished.

clean (adjective)

uncluttered, unspotted, unpolluted.

credulous (adjective)

green, unsuspicious, uncritical.

daft (adjective)

witless.

dense (adjective)

slow-witted.

difficult (adjective)

tough.

earthy (adjective)

folksy.

economical (adjective)

spartan.

feeble-minded; not intelligent (adjective)

half-witted, brainless, shallow, uneducated, thick, backward, witless, gullible, foolish, dull, illiterate, soft, imbecile, ignorant, dense, credulous, unintelligent, slow, dumb, mindless, simple-minded, obtuse.

feebleminded (adjective)

Weak-minded.

foolish (adjective)

tomfool.

gullible (adjective)

wide-eyed, unsuspecting.

ignorant (adjective)

empty-headed, uninformed, brainless, unintelligent, ignorant, foolish, illiterate, unlearned, uneducated, untutored, mindless.

innocent (adjective)

gullible.

mere (adjective)

unmixed.

modest (adjective)

unostentatious, unpretending.

oafish (adjective)

oafish.

open-and-shut (adjective)

self-explanatory.

perfect (adjective)

unalloyed, perfect.

pure (adjective)

honorable, monolithic, undiluted, primal, essential, foundational, formative, prime, atomic, purebred, austere, aboriginal, angelic, stark, uncluttered, faultless, elementary, sinless, nascent, unalloyed, basal, Simon-pure, unmingled, innocent, immaculate, untainted, plain, undefiled, clear, bare, irreducible, elemental, fundamental, primary, white, decent, unadulterated, unblemished, untarnished, unsullied, stainless, indivisible, guiltless, spotless, blameless, pure, chaste, virtuous, basic, clean, unadorned.

shallow (adjective)

shallow.

simplistic (adjective)

oversimplified.

softheaded (adjective)

softheaded.

succinct (adjective)

outspoken, stark, unadorned, bald, uncluttered, unpretentious, direct, Plain-spoken, prosaic, folksy, unpoetical, ordinary, casual, honest, straightforward, candid, frank, informal, clear, intelligible, blunt.

uncluttered, natural (adjective)

undecorated, austere, unadulterated, homely, modest, unpretentious, absolute, pure, sheer, unalloyed, unqualified, unadorned, unmixed, mere, unostentatious, lowly, unmitigated, unaffected, humble, spartan, folksy, unornamented, rustic, classic, single, unembellished.

unembellished (adjective)

unembellished.

unenlightened (adjective)

benighted.

united (adjective)

united, cohesive, undivided, congruent, homogeneous, monolithic, coherent, intact, integrated, uniform, pure, solid, fundamental, holistic, irreducible, entire, elemental, unified, congruous, single, complete, indivisible, integral, coincident, same, atomic.

various (adjective)

multiple.

lowly (adverb)

modest.

Sense 1 (noun)

distributed, collective, common, Among, uneven, corporate, simplistic, unmixed, personal.

Sense 2 (noun)

absolute, sheer, perfect.

Sense 3 (noun)

snap.

Sense 4 (noun)

unvarnished, dry.

Sense 5 (noun)

clear-cut, understandable, unassuming, unostentatious, modest.

Sense 6 (noun)

convenient, trouble-free, backward, undemanding, half-witted, dull, slow, Feeble-minded, soft, Weak-minded, slow-witted.

Sense 8 (noun)

lowly, humble.

Sense 9 (noun)

moron, ninny, Mooncalf, nincompoop, schmuck, nerd, turkey, ding-dong, schmo, gander, cretin, tomfool, nitwit, imbecile, fool, goof, goose, softhead.

easy (noun)

manageable.

fool (noun)

ninny, schmo, Mooncalf, softhead, turkey.

optical instrument (noun)

lens.

plain (noun)

homely, unaffected, modest.

schmuck (noun)

schmuck.

stupid (noun)

shallow, dull.

undecorated (noun)

simply, spartan, functional, plainly.

confused (verb)

twisted.

Usage examples for simple:

• It would be very simple. - "The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories", Lord Dunsany.
• " It is simple," was the reply. - "Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 1930", Various.
• She had thought it so simple to love and to be loved; she had never believed that a word would change him. - "Old Kensington", Miss Thackeray.