Simple

Main form: simple, word type::adjective. Used both descriptively (adding detail) and restrictively (restricting the subject). In sciences, typically used in a binary sense (something is either simple or is not simple), whereas in the social sciences and daily parlance, typically used to describe position on a wider scale.

Related forms: simplicity (whether or not something is simple, extent to which something is simple)

Typical use:


 * Easy to handle, basic, lacking in complexity. Similar words: Similar::easy, Similar::basic
 * Something that cannot be decomposed, reduced or broken up. Similar words: Similar::indecomposable, Similar::irreducible.
 * Honest, open and straightforward, not deceitful, designing, or guileful. Similar words: Similar::straightforward

Opposite words: Opposite::compound, Opposite::complex, Opposite::convoluted, Opposite::decomposable, Opposite::reducible.

Derived words: Derived::semisimple, Derived::quasisimple, Derived::pseudosimple.