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you are asking him. 5 lowly, humble, inferior, mean, base,<br />

subservient, common, subordinate: The lord of the manor<br />

regarded his tenants as simple folk, a breed apart from himself<br />

and his family.<br />

simplicity<br />

n. 1 uncomplicatedness; understandability, comprehensibility,<br />

lucidity, straightforwardness, clarity, intelligibility,<br />

decipherability: Consider the simplicity of some life forms in<br />

contrast to the complexity of others. The simplicity of the<br />

Bible can be deceptive. 2 plainness, cleanness, clarity,<br />

severity, starkness, austereness, asceticism, restraint,<br />

bareness, purity: She prefers the simplicity of classical or<br />

very modern design to baroque and rococo clutter. 3 sincerity,<br />

openness, artlessness, candour, guilelessness, frankness,<br />

unsophisticatedness, ingenuousness, straightforwardness,<br />

forthrightness, unaffectedness, unpretentiousness, modesty,<br />

na‹vety; plainness, directness, inelegance, rusticity,<br />

pastoralism: Many have been charmed by the simplicity of the<br />

local folk art. 4 stupidity, slow-wittedness, thickheadedness,<br />

simple-mindedness, feeble-mindedness, oafishness, cloddishness,<br />

obtuseness, dullness, dull-wittedness, witlessness,<br />

halfwittedness, imbecility, brainlessness: The simplicity of<br />

some of those yokels is incredible.<br />

simplify v. clarify, clear up, make easy, paraphrase, explain,<br />

explicate, disentangle, untangle, unravel, streamline: Simplify<br />

your request and we shall be able to do what you ask.<br />

simply adv. 1 merely, barely, purely, only, solely, just, entirely,<br />

fully, totally, wholly, altogether, absolutely, really: Is it<br />

true that they met regularly simply to discuss politics? 2<br />

totally, completely, altogether, entirely, just, plainly,<br />

obviously, really, unreservedly, unqualifiedly: If you believe<br />

that, you're simply too stupid for words! 3 na‹vely, artlessly,<br />

guilelessly, openly, innocently, ingenuously, unaffectedly,<br />

unpretentiously, plainly, naturally: He asked her very simply<br />

what she did as a 'working girl'. 4 plainly, modestly, starkly,<br />

severely, sparely, sparsely, austerely, ascetically: His home<br />

is simply furnished, without paintings or any other decoration.<br />

5 distinctly, unambiguously, plainly, obviously, unmistakably or<br />

unmistakeably: The instructions must be written simply so that<br />

they are understandable to anyone.

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