as in naive
lacking in sophistication
a simplistic belief in claims of the product's effectiveness simplistic thinking
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Recent Examples of simplistic
Lamborghinis ostentatious, Corvettes simplistic, BMWs arrogant.
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Erik Shilling, Robb Report, 15 Sep. 2025
Artificial neural networks are simplistic and crude renditions based on surface-level facets of biochemical neural networks.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
The stock answer is that European companies simply aren’t as ambitious, but that is too simplistic for Dushnitsky.
—Andrew Saunders, Fortune, 8 Sep. 2025
The interpretation, though, is rather simplistic to Durham.
—Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 6 Sep. 2025
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Erik Shilling, Robb Report, 15 Sep. 2025
Artificial neural networks are simplistic and crude renditions based on surface-level facets of biochemical neural networks.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
The stock answer is that European companies simply aren’t as ambitious, but that is too simplistic for Dushnitsky.
—Andrew Saunders, Fortune, 8 Sep. 2025
The interpretation, though, is rather simplistic to Durham.
—Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 6 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for simplistic
Adjective
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Wahlberg plays a holy fool in Boogie Nights, our naïve but well-endowed guide through the heyday of theatrical pornography and its decline into something cheaper and tawdrier courtesy of the triumph of VHS.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
25 Sep. 2025
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The passions and dreams that drove the movement can seem inchoate, naïve, and contradictory.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
25 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Don’t pull over in the roundabout Roundabouts with a single lane of traffic in each direction are fairly simple – yield to traffic in the roundabout, wait for a gap in traffic and go through, Bryson said.—
Eric D. Lawrence,
USA Today,
28 Sep. 2025
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This can be as simple as bodyweight movements, resistance bands or dumbbells, focusing on compound/functional movements like squats, pushes and pulls.—
Melissa Rudy,
FOXNews.com,
27 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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One creator, who goes by @littlemisstippytoes on TikTok, said in a post that before tween media rose to prominence, preteens were either seen as early bloomers for looking more mature, or childish for looking their age.—
Melissa Fleur Afshar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 Sep. 2025
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But the series’ first season was too committed to childish things to allow the franchise to grow up.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
24 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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And there’s been this story that retail investors are unsophisticated.—
Fortune Editors,
Fortune,
27 Aug. 2025
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Police describe it as a brazen, unsophisticated robbery that occurred around 5:30 p.m. on June 18, targeting a jewelry store on the 5100 block of Mowry Avenue in Fremont.—
Nate Gartrell,
Mercury News,
7 Aug. 2025
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“Simplistic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/simplistic. Accessed 3 Oct. 2025.
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