Synonyms of simple

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adjective

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as in plain

free from all additions or embellishment

a simple design, and one that never goes out of fashion

Synonyms & Similar Words

• plain
• bare
• unadorned
• naked
• clean
• stripped
• honest
• unvarnished
• bald
• undecorated
• unembellished
• quiet
• restrained
• unornamented
• plain-vanilla
• spartan
• homely
• unsophisticated
• modest
• elemental
• unpretentious
• natural
• subdued
• earthy
• forthright
• bleak
• minimalist
• unobtrusive
• stark
• inconspicuous
• conservative
• austere
• severe
• understated
• muted
• antiseptic
• toned (down)
• divested
• denuded
• sober
• au naturel

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• fancy
• loud
• showy
• decorated
• flashy
• gaudy
• tawdry
• flamboyant
• ostentatious
• adorned
• swanky
• embellished
• ornamented
• garish
• glitzy
• exaggerated
• elaborate
• swank
• splashy
• lurid
• florid
• extravagant
• overwrought
• ornate
• glittery
• baroque
• rococo
• dressed
• trimmed
• embroidered
• overdecorated
• bedizened
• decked-out
• overdone
• arrayed
• garnished
• bedecked
• apparelled
• appareled

2

as in unaffected

free from any intent to deceive or impress others

growing up in simple innocence

Synonyms & Similar Words

• unaffected
• genuine
• honest
• true
• innocent
• straightforward
• real
• naive
• sincere
• spontaneous
• naïve
• unpretentious
• artless
• ingenuous
• guileless
• inexperienced
• natural
• unpretending
• on the level
• unsophisticated
• candid
• childlike
• plain
• simpleminded
• malleable
• direct
• open
• unworldly
• impressionable
• frank
• unstudied
• unforced
• trustful
• trusting
• wide-eyed
• plainspoken
• free
• persuasible
• gee-whiz
• straight
• openhearted
• persuadable
• unguarded
• single-minded
• gullible
• susceptible
• exploitable
• dewy-eyed
• free-spoken
• unwary
• gullable

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• critical
• false
• artificial
• assuming
• artful
• sophisticated
• pretentious
• dishonest
• fake
• affected
• phony
• cynical
• insincere
• suspicious
• skeptical
• wary
• worldly
• phoney
• polished
• refined
• cosmopolitan
• subtle
• civilized
• deceptive
• mistrustful
• cultured
• guileful
• manipulative
• smooth
• tricky
• devious
• shrewd
• hypocritical
• sharp
• deceitful
• cunning
• cultivated
• dissembling
• slick
• crooked
• designing
• sly
• dissimulating
• wily
• crafty
• slippery
• calculating
• worldly-wise
• underhanded
• shifty
• flattering
• scheming
• foxy
• unctuous
• arch
• strained
• forced
• feigned
• canny
• knavish
• double-dealing
• two-faced
• sycophantic
• mealymouthed

3

as in pure

having no exceptions or restrictions

that's the simple truth

Synonyms & Similar Words

• pure
• unconditional
• complete
• sheer
• utter
• absolute
• perfect
• very
• definite
• total
• damn
• damned
• outright
• profound
• real
• thorough
• deadly
• regular
• clean
• categorical
• huge
• endless
• stark
• downright
• thoroughgoing
• dreadful
• unadulterated
• fair
• blank
• constant
• unmitigated
• flat
• crashing
• categoric
• unqualified
• consummate
• straight-out
• genuine
• plumb
• flat-out
• horrible
• classic
• bodacious
• out-and-out
• terrible
• dead
• authentic
• eternal
• stone
• rank
• all-out
• blooming
• unalloyed
• perpetual
• arrant
• extreme
• extraordinary
• main
• veritable
• hopeless
• terrific
• unrestricted
• habitual
• unremitting
• undying
• supreme
• confirmed
• superlative
• frightful
• inveterate
• surpassing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• uncertain
• doubtful
• questionable
• restricted
• dubious
• qualified
• equivocal

4

as in easy

involving minimal difficulty or effort

I got all of the answers right because it was such a simple test

Synonyms & Similar Words

• easy
• smooth
• cheap
• ready
• quick
• straightforward
• effortless
• painless
• facile
• fluent
• soft
• light
• snap
• royal
• fluid
• uncomplicated
• downhill
• obvious
• hands-down
• clear
• mindless
• plain
• transparent
• unambiguous
• evident
• distinct
• unchallenging
• apparent
• unmistakable
• idiotproof
• clear-cut
• unequivocal
• manifest
• perspicuous
• palpable
• patent
• open-and-shut

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• difficult
• hard
• tough
• severe
• laborious
• arduous
• strenuous
• formidable
• rough
• exacting
• killer
• stiff
• demanding
• murderous
• grueling
• painful
• herculean
• troublesome
• toilsome
• labored
• complex
• onerous
• burdensome
• stressful
• complicated
• oppressive
• exhausting
• gruelling
• intricate
• problematic
• toilful
• problematical
• involved
• abstruse
• taxing
• recondite
• knotty

5

as in naive

lacking in worldly wisdom or informed judgment

developers mistakenly thought that the local residents were simple people who would sell their land for practically nothing

Synonyms & Similar Words

• naive
• innocent
• primitive
• unsophisticated
• inexperienced
• immature
• naïve
• ingenuous
• green
• simpleminded
• unsuspicious
• uncritical
• childish
• unworldly
• unsuspecting
• dewy
• unknowing
• impractical
• unwary
• trustful
• trusting
• aw-shucks
• naïf
• wide-eyed
• childlike
• believing
• naif
• dewy-eyed
• idealistic
• careless
• unrealistic
• susceptible
• raw
• gullible
• thoughtless
• callow
• credulous
• unguarded
• heedless
• gullable
• tricked
• duped
• beguiled
• gulled

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• sophisticated
• worldly
• knowing
• experienced
• critical
• cosmopolitan
• careful
• cynical
• suspicious
• skeptical
• incredulous
• cautious
• realistic
• unconvinced
• pragmatic
• wary
• watchful
• doubting
• worldly-wise
• leery
• guarded
• down-to-earth
• sober
• hardheaded
• pragmatical
• suspecting
• leary
• streetwise
• street-smart

6

as in ignorant

lacking in education or the knowledge gained from books

the fact that he didn't go to college doesn't mean he's simple

Synonyms & Similar Words

• ignorant
• dark
• inexperienced
• uneducated
• untutored
• innocent
• illiterate
• untaught
• unschooled
• rude
• unlearned
• uninstructed
• naive
• benighted
• nonliterate
• unlettered
• unread
• stupid
• unsophisticated
• analphabetic
• naïve
• foolish
• artless
• idiotic
• dumb
• functionally illiterate
• green
• silly
• unknowledgeable
• semiliterate
• uncultured
• lowbrow
• moronic
• unskilled
• imbecilic
• uncultivated
• untrained
• innumerate
• brainless
• idiotical
• callow
• imbecile
• raw
• witless
• senseless
• philistine

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• brilliant
• intelligent
• knowledgeable
• smart
• literate
• educated
• expert
• lettered
• experienced
• trained
• sophisticated
• learned
• well-informed
• scholarly
• erudite
• intellectual
• familiar
• schooled
• well-read
• cultured
• aware
• cultivated
• acquainted
• polymathic
• highbrow
• polyhistoric
• polymath

7

as in stupid

not having or showing an ability to absorb ideas readily

don't be so quick to characterize people who have trouble with computers as simple

Synonyms & Similar Words

• stupid
• dumb
• slow
• thick
• dense
• dull
• foolish
• idiotic
• silly
• soft
• ignorant
• obtuse
• opaque
• mindless
• fatuous
• vacuous
• unintelligent
• unreasonable
• dim
• brainless
• brain-dead
• dopey
• insane
• dorky
• irrational
• boneheaded
• doltish
• senseless
• thickheaded
• idiotical
• crazy
• lamebrain
• dunderheaded
• mad
• witless
• oafish
• dopy
• bonehead
• weak-minded
• pinheaded
• softheaded
• lamebrained
• dim-witted
• unsmart
• absurd
• moronic
• gormless
• slow-witted
• empty-headed
• simpleminded
• airheaded
• knuckleheaded
• thick-witted
• lunkheaded
• half-witted
• chuckleheaded
• looney
• bubbleheaded
• fool
• birdbrained
• imbecilic
• uneducated
• lunatic
• unthinking
• feebleminded
• cretinous
• uninformed
• illogical
• zany
• nonsensical
• asinine
• unintellectual
• whacky
• imbecile
• illiterate
• daft
• preposterous
• unwise
• untaught
• wacky
• nutty
• sappy
• lowbrow
• fallacious
• invalid
• dippy
• kooky
• cuckoo
• dotty
• harebrained
• daffy
• screwball
• loony
• boobish
• balmy
• half-baked
• cockeyed
• featherheaded
• kookie
• crackpot
• tomfool

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• quick
• brilliant
• clever
• intelligent
• fast
• smart
• bright
• apt
• ingenious
• sharp
• nimble
• keen
• wise
• resourceful
• acute
• knowing
• thinking
• insightful
• astute
• savvy
• keen
• perceptive
• sagacious
• cerebral
• intellectual
• knowledgeable
• brainy
• learned
• skilled
• discerning
• scholarly
• literate
• quick-witted
• erudite
• sage
• reasonable
• ultrasmart
• supersmart
• sharp-witted
• informed
• shrewd
• sensible
• cunning
• trained
• logical
• sound
• educated
• perspicacious
• valid
• prudent
• rational
• wily
• crafty
• hyperintelligent
• sane
• judicious
• sapient
• percipient
• highbrow
• well-read
• schooled
• foxy

simpleness

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noun

1

as in simplicity

the quality or state of being simple and sincere

the simpleness of the villagers was so disarming that she temporarily abandoned her natural cynicism

Synonyms & Similar Words

• simplicity
• naturalness
• innocence
• sincerity
• naiveté
• naïveté
• artlessness
• ingenuousness
• greenness
• guilelessness
• ignorance
• naivete
• naivety
• unworldliness
• naïvety
• optimism
• honesty
• simplemindedness
• straightforwardness
• unsophistication
• frankness
• naiveness
• genuineness
• unpretentiousness
• openness
• viridity
• idealism
• inexperience
• carelessness
• candor
• rawness
• childishness
• insularity
• unawareness
• heedlessness
• parochialism
• unaffectedness
• thoughtlessness
• impracticality
• gullibility
• provincialism
• credulity
• impressionability
• obliviousness
• callowness
• coltishness
• credulousness

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• sophistication
• cynicism
• worldliness
• artfulness
• artificiality
• dishonesty
• pretentiousness
• insincerity
• disbelief
• knowingness
• deviousness
• incredulity
• carefulness
• caution
• suspiciousness
• maturity
• affectedness
• wariness
• skepticism
• pessimism
• doubtfulness
• street smarts

2

as in thickness

the quality or state of lacking intelligence or quickness of mind

his sweetness was more important to them than his simpleness

Synonyms & Similar Words

• thickness
• slowness
• stupidness
• simplicity
• dulness
• dullness
• density
• denseness
• stupidity
• obtuseness
• foolishness
• mindlessness
• dumbness
• dorkiness
• boneheadedness
• dopiness
• oafishness
• insanity
• doltishness
• witlessness
• brainlessness
• senselessness
• weak-mindedness
• gormlessness
• fatuity
• vacuity
• absurdity
• dim-wittedness
• madness
• simplemindedness
• craziness
• idiocy
• unreasonableness
• feeblemindedness
• daftness
• dottiness
• wackiness
• preposterousness
• fatuousness
• silliness
• zaniness
• nuttiness
• nonsensicalness
• irrationality
• inaneness
• inanity
• balminess
• fallacy
• folly
• asininity
• lunacy
• mental retardation
• mental deficiency
• nincompoopery
• dippiness

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• brightness
• quickness
• cleverness
• brilliance
• intelligence
• smartness
• perception
• sharpness
• keenness
• judgment
• insight
• judgement
• astuteness
• acumen
• alertness
• perspicacity
• discernment
• wisdom
• quick-wittedness
• wit
• braininess
• sagacity
• validity
• reasonableness
• rationality
• soundness
• percipience
• sapience
• logicality
• logicalness
• sageness
• rationalness

3

as in naiveté

readiness to believe the claims of others without sufficient evidence

there's a good-hearted simpleness about her that makes her easy prey for scams

Synonyms & Similar Words

• simplicity
• naiveté
• naïveté
• naivete
• belief
• gullibility
• credulity
• credibility
• naiveness
• artlessness
• credulousness
• unworldliness
• trust
• unsophistication
• faith
• unwariness

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• sophistication
• skepticism
• incredulity
• worldliness
• distrust
• mistrust
• suspicion
• doubt
• uncertainty
• wariness
• suspiciousness
• misdoubt