Definition: a person lacking intelligence or common sense
Similar words: somebody, someone, soul, mortal, person, individual
Definition: a human being
Usage: there was too much for one person to do
Synonyms: simple
Definition: any herbaceous plant having medicinal properties
Similar words: herb, herbaceous plant
Definition: a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests
Synonyms: simple, elementary, unproblematic, uncomplicated
Definition: easy and not involved or complicated
Usage: an elementary problem in statistics; elementary, my dear Watson; a simple game; found an uncomplicated solution to the problem
Similar words: easy
Definition: posing no difficulty; requiring little effort
Usage: an easy job; an easy problem; an easy victory; the house is easy to heat; satisfied with easy answers; took the easy way out of his dilemma
Definition: apart from anything else; without additions or modifications
Usage: only the bare facts; shocked by the mere idea; the simple passage of time was enough; the simple truth
Similar words: plain
Definition: not elaborate or elaborated; simple
Usage: plain food; stuck to the plain facts; a plain blue suit; a plain rectangular brick building
Synonyms: simple
Definition: unornamented
Usage: a simple country schoolhouse; her black dress--simple to austerity
Similar words: plain
Definition: not elaborate or elaborated; simple
Usage: plain food; stuck to the plain facts; a plain blue suit; a plain rectangular brick building
Synonyms: dim-witted, simple, simple-minded
Definition: lacking mental capacity and subtlety
Similar words: retarded
Definition: relatively slow in mental or emotional or physical development
Usage: providing a secure and sometimes happy life for the retarded
Synonyms: unsubdivided, simple
Definition: (botany) of leaf shapes; of leaves having no divisions or subdivisions
Similar words: needle-shaped, acerate, acerose, acicular
Definition: narrow and long and pointed; as pine leaves
Similar words: acuminate
Definition: (of a leaf shape) narrowing to a slender point
Similar words: apiculate
Definition: (of a leaf shape) having a short sharply pointed tip
Similar words: caudate
Definition: (of a leaf shape) tapering gradually into a long taillike tip
Similar words: cordate, cordiform, heart-shaped
Definition: (of a leaf) shaped like a heart
Similar words: wedge-shaped, cuneate
Definition: (of a leaf shape) narrowly triangular, wider at the apex and tapering toward the base
Similar words: deltoid
Definition: triangular or suggesting a capital delta, with a point at the apex
Similar words: dolabrate, dolabriform
Definition: having the shape of the head of an ax or cleaver
Similar words: elliptic
Definition: (of a leaf shape) in the form of an ellipse
Similar words: ensiform, bladelike, sword-shaped, swordlike
Definition: shaped like a sword blade
Usage: the iris has an ensiform leaf
Similar words: hastate, spearhead-shaped
Definition: (of a leaf shape) like a spear point, with flaring pointed lobes at the base
Similar words: lancelike, lanceolate
Definition: (of a leaf shape) shaped like a lance head; narrow and tapering to a pointed apex
Similar words: linear, elongate
Definition: (of a leaf shape) long and narrow
Similar words: lyrate
Definition: (of a leaf shape) having curvature suggestive of a lyre
Similar words: needled
Definition: of trees whose leaves are acerate
Similar words: two-needled
Definition: (of conifers) having two needles
Similar words: three-needled
Definition: (of conifers) having three needles
Similar words: four-needled
Definition: (of conifers) having four needles
Similar words: five-needled
Definition: (of conifers) having five needles
Similar words: obtuse
Definition: (of a leaf shape) rounded at the apex
Similar words: oblanceolate
Definition: (of a leaf shape) having a broad rounded apex and a tapering base
Similar words: oblong
Definition: (of a leaf shape) having a somewhat elongated form with approximately parallel sides
Similar words: obovate
Definition: (of a leaf shape) egg-shaped with the narrower end at the base
Similar words: orbicular, orbiculate
Definition: circular or nearly circular
Similar words: ovate
Definition: of a leaf shape; egg-shaped with the broader end at the base
Similar words: pandurate, panduriform, fiddle-shaped
Definition: (of a leaf shape) having rounded ends and a contracted center
Similar words: peltate, shield-shaped
Definition: (of a leaf shape) round, with the stem attached near the center of the lower surface rather than the margin (as a nasturtium leaf for example)
Similar words: perfoliate
Definition: (of a leaf) having the base united around (and apparently pierced by) the stem
Similar words: reniform, kidney-shaped
Definition: (of a leaf or bean shape) resembling the shape of kidney
Similar words: sagittate, sagittiform, arrow-shaped
Definition: (of a leaf shape) like an arrow head without flaring base lobes
Similar words: spatula-shaped, spatulate
Definition: (of a leaf shape) having a broad rounded apex and a narrow base
Similar words: unlobed
Definition: without lobes
Synonyms: simple
Definition: having few parts; not complex or complicated or involved
Usage: a simple problem; simple mechanisms; a simple design; a simple substance
Similar words: simplex
Definition: having only one part or element
Usage: a simplex word has no affixes and is not part of a compound--like `boy' compared with `boyish' or `house' compared with `houseboat'
Similar words: simplistic
Definition: characterized by extreme and often misleading simplicity
Usage: a simplistic theory of the universe; simplistic arguments of the ruling party
Similar words: unanalyzable, undecomposable
Definition: representing the furthest possible extent of analysis or division into parts
Usage: a feeling is a simple and undecomposable mental state- G.S.Brett; this weight of evidence is something mystical and unanalyzable-M.R.Cohen
Similar words: uncomplicated, unsophisticated
Definition: lacking complexity
Usage: small and uncomplicated cars for those really interested in motoring; an unsophisticated machine
Synonyms: dewy-eyed, simple, round-eyed, wide-eyed, childlike
Definition: exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity
Usage: childlike trust; dewy-eyed innocence; listened in round-eyed wonder
Definition: marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience
Usage: a teenager's naive ignorance of life; the naive assumption that things can only get better; this naive simple creature with wide friendly eyes so eager to believe appearances