adj · noun · verb · 36 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot
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Sound
Pronunciation
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Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: basic, trivial, as a duck takes to water, easy, easy as 123, easy as ABC, easy as cake, easy as pie, easy as falling off a log, easy as rolling off a log, easy as toffee, easy-breezy, easy peasy, easy peasy Japanesey, easy peasy lemon squeezy, eath, effortless, facile, idiotproof, light, like a duck takes to water, like falling off a log, like riding a bike, like robbing a baby, like shelling peas, like shooting fish in a barrel, like taking candy from a baby, natural, painless, piss-easy, plain-sailing, simple, simple as kiss your hand, simplex, smooth, soft, straightforward, troublefree, unchallenging, uncomplicated, undemanding, undifficult, yezzy
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Usage: colloquial, euphemistic
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Synonyms: dim-witted, unwise, asinine, balmy, barmy, bedaft, loony, daft, derpy, dim-headed, dopey, dull-headed, dull-witted, dumb, duncical, fatuous, fuzzy-headed, fuzzy-minded, gauvison, goofy, idiotic, idle, insipient, mookish, naive, silly, simple, slight, slow-witted, softheaded, soft in the head, sottish, stupid, thick, unsage, wool-headed, woolly-headed, woolly-minded, crackpot, dense, addlebrained, addlepated, airheaded, bee-brained, beef-witted, beefheaded, beetle-headed, birdbrained, blockheaded, Boeotian, boneheaded, boofheaded, braindead, brainless, bubbleheaded, buffle-headed, bullet-headed, cerebrally challenged, childish, chowderheaded, chuckleheaded, crackbrained, cretinous, dented, dim-bulb, dim, doltish, dozy, drowsy, dull-minded, dull, dumber than a box of rocks, dunderheaded, empty-headed, fatheaded, feeble-minded, flea-brained, foolish, half-brained, half-witted, hammer-headed, ignorant, imbecilic, inane, insipid, intellectually challenged, knuckleheaded, lamebrained, lowbrow, lumpish, lunkheaded, mentally challenged, mentally retarded, mindless, monosynaptic, moronic, muttonheaded, nitwitted, numbskulled, oafish, obtuse, peabrained, pratty, pudding-headed, puerile, purblind, quarter-witted, retarded, ridiculous, rockheaded, sharp as a bowling ball, sheep-headed, slow, slow on the uptake, smooth-brained, stolid, thick-skulled, thickheaded, thickwitted, unapprehensive, unclever, uninformed, unintelligent, unsmart, vacant, vacuous, witless, wooden-headed, dumb as a bag of hammers, dumb as a box of rocks, dumb as a doorknob, dumb as an ox, dumb as a post, dumb as a sack of hammers, dumb as dirt, dumber than a rock, not the sharpest crayon in the box, not the sharpest knife in the drawer, not the sharpest tool in the shed, thick as a brick, thick as a plank, thick as champ, thick as mince, thick as two short planks, thick as a whale omelette, ass-brained, fuckwitted, shit-for-brains, thick as pig shit
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: basic, plain, uncomplex, uncomplicated
Antonyms: complex, compound, complicated
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adj
Meaning 11
Structurally uncomplicated.
Being non-trivial, and admitting no proper non-trivial quotients.
Being non-zero, and having no proper non-zero two-sided ideals (equivalently, no proper non-trivial quotient rings). For commutative rings, this definition coincides with that of a field.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: basic, plain, uncomplex, uncomplicated
Antonyms: complex, compound, complicated
12
adj
Meaning 12
Structurally uncomplicated.
Being non-trivial, and admitting no proper non-trivial quotients.
Containing more than one element, and such that the only congruences on the structure are the diagonal relation (the equivalence relation a≡b⟺a=b) and the universal relation (the equivalence relation such that a≡b for all a,b). Equivalently, containing more than one element and having no proper non-trivial quotient algebras.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: basic, plain, uncomplex, uncomplicated
Antonyms: complex, compound, complicated
14
adj
Meaning 14
Structurally uncomplicated.
Being non-abelian and having no proper non-zero ideals. (Note that this is non-equivalent to the usual algebra sense; in particular, the abelian Lie algebra of dimension 1 over any given field is non-trivial and has no proper non-zero ideals, but is by convention not considered simple.)
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: basic, plain, uncomplex, uncomplicated
Antonyms: complex, compound, complicated
17
adj
Meaning 17
Structurally uncomplicated.
Using steam only once in its cylinders, in contrast to a compound engine, where steam is used more than once in high-pressure and low-pressure cylinders. (of a steam engine)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: herb, herbaceous plant
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sem- Proto-Indo-European *sm̥-der. Latin sem- Proto-Italic *-plosder. Latin -plus Latin simplusbor. Old French simplebor. Middle English symple English simple Inherited from Middle English symple, from Old French simple, from Latin simplex (“simple”, literally “onefold”) (as opposed to duplex (“double”, literally “twofold”)), from semel (“the same”) + plicō (“to fold”). See same and fold. Compare single, singular, simultaneous, etc. Partially displaced native English onefold.
Across languages
Translations
236 source translations are retained for this English entry.
Afrikaans:
eenvoudig
— uncomplicated
Albanian:
thjeshtë
— uncomplicated
Arabic:
بَسِيط
(basīṭ)
— uncomplicated
Arabic:
سَهْل
(sahl)
— uncomplicated
Arabic:
بسيط
(basīṭ)
— uncomplicated
Arabic:
بَسِيط
(basīṭ)
— uncomplicated
Arabic:
سَهَل
(sahal)
— uncomplicated
Aragonese:
simple
— uncomplicated
Armenian:
պարզ
(parz)
— uncomplicated
Armenian:
հասարակ
(hasarak)
— uncomplicated
Assamese:
সৰল
(xorol)
— uncomplicated
Assamese:
সহজ
(xohoz)
— uncomplicated
Asturian:
simple
— uncomplicated
Asturian:
cenciellu
— uncomplicated
Azerbaijani:
sadə
— uncomplicated
Azerbaijani:
bəsit
— uncomplicated
Bashkir:
ябай
(yabay)
— uncomplicated
Basque:
erraz
— uncomplicated
Belarusian:
про́сты
(prósty)
— uncomplicated
Belarusian:
лёгкі
(ljóhki)
— uncomplicated
Bengali:
সহজ
(śohoj)
— uncomplicated
Breton:
eeun
— uncomplicated
Bulgarian:
прост
(prost)
— uncomplicated
Bulgarian:
ле́сен
(lésen)
— uncomplicated
Burmese:
ရိုး
(rui:)
— uncomplicated
Catalan:
simple
— uncomplicated
Catalan:
senzill
— uncomplicated
Chinese Mandarin:
簡單 /简单
(jiǎndān)
— uncomplicated
