EGAVE

simple

About 108.01 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Uncomplicated; lacking complexity; taken by itself, with nothing added.
  2. adjective Easy; not difficult.
  3. adjective Without ornamentation; plain.
  4. adjective Free from duplicity; guileless, innocent, straightforward.
  5. adjective Undistinguished in social condition; of no special rank.
  6. adjective Trivial; insignificant.
  7. adjective Feeble-minded; foolish.
  8. adjective Structurally uncomplicated.
    a simple ascidian

Similar words

uncomplicated unpretentious simplex simplistic bare unproblematic modest childlike naive pure

Often followed by

and as to matter example but reason in or

Word family

simpleness simplenesses simpler simples simplest

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