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Synonyms & Antonyms of simple
- a simple design, and one that never goes out of fashion
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- flamboyant,
- flashy,
- garish,
- gaudy,
- glittery,
- glitzy,
- loud,
- ostentatious,
- showy,
- splashy,
- swank
- (or swanky),
- tawdry
- appareled
- (or apparelled),
- arrayed,
- bedecked,
- decked-out,
- dressed,
- embroidered,
- garnished,
- trimmed
Antonyms for simple
- growing up in simple innocence
Synonyms for simple
- artless,
- genuine,
- guileless,
- honest,
- ingenuous,
- innocent,
- naive
- (or naïve),
- natural,
- real,
- sincere,
- true,
- unaffected,
- unpretending,
- unpretentious
Words Related to simple
- childlike,
- dewy-eyed,
- gee-whiz,
- impressionable,
- inexperienced,
- malleable,
- persuadable,
- persuasible,
- simpleminded,
- unsophisticated,
- unworldly,
- wide-eyed
- candid,
- direct,
- frank,
- free,
- free-spoken,
- open,
- openhearted,
- plain,
- plainspoken,
- single-minded,
- straight,
- straightforward,
- unguarded
- exploitable,
- gullible
- (also gullable),
- susceptible,
- unwary
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Antonyms for simple
- affected,
- artful,
- artificial,
- assuming,
- dishonest,
- dissembling,
- dissimulating,
- fake,
- false,
- guileful,
- insincere,
- phony
- (also phoney),
- pretentious
- that's the simple truth
Synonyms for simple
- absolute,
- all-out,
- arrant,
- blank,
- blooming
- [chiefly British],
- bodacious
- [Southern & Midland],
- categorical
- (also categoric),
- clean,
- complete,
- consummate,
- cotton-picking,
- crashing,
- damn,
- damned,
- dead,
- deadly,
- definite,
- downright,
- dreadful,
- fair,
- flat,
- flat-out,
- out-and-out,
- outright,
- perfect,
- plumb,
- profound,
- pure,
- rank,
- regular,
- sheer,
- stark,
- stone,
- straight-out,
- thorough,
- thoroughgoing,
- total,
- unadulterated,
- unalloyed,
- unconditional,
- unmitigated,
- unqualified,
- utter,
- very
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Near Antonyms for simple
- I got all of the answers right because it was such a simple test
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- developers mistakenly thought that the local residents were simple people who would sell their land for practically nothing
Synonyms for simple
- aw-shucks,
- dewy,
- dewy-eyed,
- green,
- ingenuous,
- innocent,
- naïf
- (or naif),
- naive
- (or naïve),
- primitive,
- simpleminded,
- uncritical,
- unknowing,
- unsophisticated,
- unsuspecting,
- unsuspicious,
- unwary,
- unworldly,
- wide-eyed
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Near Antonyms for simple
- down-to-earth,
- hardheaded,
- pragmatic
- (also pragmatical),
- realistic,
- sober
Antonyms for simple
- the fact that he didn't go to college doesn't mean he's simple
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- don't be so quick to characterize people who have trouble with computers as simple
Synonyms for simple
- airheaded,
- birdbrained,
- bonehead,
- boneheaded,
- brain-dead,
- brainless,
- bubbleheaded,
- chuckleheaded,
- dense,
- dim,
- dim-witted,
- doltish,
- dopey
- (also dopy),
- dorky
- [slang],
- dull,
- dumb,
- dunderheaded,
- empty-headed,
- fatuous,
- gormless
- [chiefly British],
- half-witted,
- knuckleheaded,
- lamebrain
- (or lamebrained),
- lunkheaded,
- mindless,
- oafish,
- obtuse,
- opaque,
- pinheaded,
- senseless,
- slow,
- slow-witted,
- soft,
- softheaded,
- stupid,
- thick,
- thick-witted,
- thickheaded,
- unintelligent,
- unsmart,
- vacuous,
- weak-minded,
- witless
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The first known use of simple was in the 13th century
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