Dictionary entry details
• SIMPLE (noun)
Meaning:
Any herbaceous plant having medicinal properties
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("simple" is a kind of...):
herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)
Domain usage:
archaicism; archaism (the use of an archaic expression)
Meaning:
A person lacking intelligence or common sense
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
simpleton; simple
Hypernyms ("simple" is a kind of...):
individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "simple"):
airhead (a flighty scatterbrained simpleton)
schlemiel; shlemiel ((Yiddish) a dolt who is a habitual bungler)
schlep; schlepper; shlep; shlepper ((Yiddish) an awkward and stupid person)
schnook; shnook ((Yiddish) a gullible simpleton more to be pitied than despised)
sheep (a timid defenseless simpleton who is readily preyed upon)
space cadet (someone who seems unable to respond appropriately to reality (as if under the influence of some narcotic drug))
lame; square (someone who doesn't understand what is going on)
dolt; dullard; pillock; poor fish; pudden-head; pudding head; stupe; stupid; stupid person (a person who is not very bright)
subnormal (a person of less than normal intelligence)
forgetful person; scatterbrain (a flighty and disorganized person)
nincompoop; ninny; poop (a stupid foolish person)
dimwit; doofus; half-wit; nitwit (a stupid incompetent person)
dingbat (a silly empty-headed person)
boob; booby; dope; dumbbell; dummy; pinhead (an ignorant or foolish person)
blockhead; bonehead; dumbass; dunce; dunderhead; fuckhead; hammerhead; knucklehead; loggerhead; lunkhead; muttonhead; numskull; shithead (these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence)
fool; muggins; sap; saphead; tomfool (a person who lacks good judgment)
changeling; cretin; half-wit; idiot; imbecile; moron; retard (a person of subnormal intelligence)
idiot savant (person who is mentally retarded in general but who displays remarkable aptitude in some limited field (usually involving memory))
nebbech; nebbish ((Yiddish) a timid unfortunate simpleton)
twerp; twirp; twit (someone who is regarded as contemptible)
• SIMPLE (adjective)
Meaning:
Having few parts; not complex or complicated or involved
Context examples:
a simple problem / simple mechanisms / a simple design / a simple substance
Similar:
simplex (having only one part or element)
unanalyzable; undecomposable (representing the furthest possible extent of analysis or division into parts)
uncomplicated; unsophisticated (lacking complexity)
Also:
easy (posing no difficulty; requiring little effort)
plain (not elaborate or elaborated; simple)
simple; unsubdivided ((botany) of leaf shapes; of leaves having no divisions or subdivisions)
Attribute:
complexity; complexness (the quality of being intricate and compounded)
Antonym:
complex (complicated in structure; consisting of interconnected parts)
Meaning:
Easy and not involved or complicated
Synonyms:
unproblematic; elementary; simple; uncomplicated
Context examples:
an elementary problem in statistics / elementary, my dear Watson / a simple game / found an uncomplicated solution to the problem
Similar:
easy (posing no difficulty; requiring little effort)
Meaning:
Apart from anything else; without additions or modifications
Synonyms:
mere; simple; bare
Context examples:
only the bare facts / shocked by the mere idea / the simple passage of time was enough / the simple truth
Similar:
plain (not elaborate or elaborated; simple)
Meaning:
Exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity
Synonyms:
dewy-eyed; round-eyed; wide-eyed; childlike; simple
Context examples:
childlike trust / dewy-eyed innocence / listened in round-eyed wonder
Similar:
naif; naive (marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience)
Meaning:
Lacking mental capacity and devoid of subtlety
Synonyms:
half-witted; dim-witted; simple-minded; simple
Similar:
retarded (relatively slow in mental or emotional or physical development)
Meaning:
(botany) of leaf shapes; of leaves having no divisions or subdivisions
Synonyms:
unsubdivided; simple
Similar:
obovate (of a leaf shape; egg-shaped with the narrower end at the base)
oblong (of a leaf shape; having a somewhat elongated form with approximately parallel sides)
oblanceolate (of a leaf shape; having a broad rounded apex and a tapering base)
obtuse (of a leaf shape; rounded at the apex)
five-needled (of conifers having five needles)
four-needled (of conifers having four needles)
orbicular; orbiculate (circular or nearly circular)
ovate (of a leaf shape; egg-shaped with the broader end at the base)
fiddle-shaped; pandurate; panduriform (of a leaf shape)
peltate; shield-shaped (of a leaf shape; round, with the stem attached near the center of the lower surface rather than the margin (as a nasturtium leaf for example))
perfoliate (of a leaf having the base united around (and apparently pierced by) the stem)
kidney-shaped; reniform (of a leaf or bean shape resembling the shape of kidney)
arrow-shaped; sagittate; sagittiform (of a leaf shape; like an arrow head without flaring base lobes)
spatula-shaped; spatulate (of a leaf shape; having a broad rounded apex and a narrow base)
unlobed (without lobes)
three-needled (of conifers having three needles)
two-needled (of conifers having two needles)
needled (of trees whose leaves are acerate)
acerate; acerose; acicular; needle-shaped (narrow and long and pointed; as pine leaves)
acuminate (of a leaf shape; narrowing to a slender point)
apiculate (of a leaf shape; having a short sharply pointed tip)
caudate (of a leaf shape; tapering gradually into a long taillike tip)
cordate; cordiform; heart-shaped ((of a leaf) shaped like a heart)
cuneate; wedge-shaped (of a leaf shape; narrowly triangular, wider at the apex and tapering toward the base)
deltoid (of a leaf shape; suggesting a capital delta, with a point at the apex)
dolabrate; dolabriform (having the shape of the head of an ax or cleaver)
elliptic (of a leaf shape; in the form of an ellipse)
bladelike; ensiform; sword-shaped; swordlike (shaped like a sword blade)
hastate; spearhead-shaped (of a leaf shape; like a spear point, with flaring pointed lobes at the base)
lancelike; lanceolate (of a leaf shape; shaped like a lance head; narrow and tapering to a pointed apex)
elongate; linear (of a leaf shape; long and narrow)
lyrate (of a leaf shape; having curvature suggestive of a lyre)
Also:
smooth (of the margin of a leaf shape; not broken up into teeth)
simple (having few parts; not complex or complicated or involved)
Domain category:
botany; phytology (the branch of biology that studies plants)
Antonym:
compound (of leaf shapes; of leaves composed of several similar parts or lobes)
Meaning:
Unornamented
Context examples:
a simple country schoolhouse / her black dress--simple to austerity
Similar:
plain (not elaborate or elaborated; simple)
