Simple synonyms | Another word for simple

Non-complex, (words) of one syllable, absolute, austere, artless, basic, and elementary are all synonyms for simple. Difficult, hard, demanding, complicated, and complex are these antonyms of simple. And here are another 144 synonyms for simple.

Simple Synonyms

1. straightforward

  • (words) of one syllable
  • A bludge
  • A breeze
  • A cakewalk
  • A cinch
  • A doddle
  • A doss
  • A five-finger exercise
  • A piece of cake
  • A piece of old tackle
  • A pushover
  • A snack
  • A snap
  • A snip
  • Accessible
  • As easy as ABC
  • As easy as falling off a log
  • As easy as pie
  • Child's play
  • Clear
  • Clearly expressed
  • Coherent
  • Comprehensible
  • Direct
  • Duck soup
  • Easy-peasy
  • Easy
  • Effortless
  • Elementary
  • Intelligible
  • Kids' stuff
  • Lucid
  • Manageable
  • Money for jam
  • Money for old rope
  • No sweat
  • Nothing
  • Painless
  • Plain sailing
  • Plain
  • Straightforward
  • Unambiguous
  • Uncomplicated
  • Undemanding
  • Understandable
  • Unexacting
  • Uninvolved
  • User-friendly

2. basic

  • Absolute
  • Bald
  • Basic
  • Blunt
  • Candid
  • Direct
  • Frank
  • Fundamental
  • Honest
  • Mere
  • Naked
  • Plain
  • Pure and simple
  • Pure
  • Sheer
  • Sincere
  • Stark
  • Unadorned
  • Unqualified
  • Unvarnished
  • Unembellished

3. plain

  • Austere
  • Bare
  • Basic
  • Chaste
  • Classic
  • Clean
  • Everyday
  • Homely
  • Homespun
  • Homestyle
  • Honest
  • Modest
  • Muted
  • No-nonsense
  • Patternless
  • Penny plain
  • Plain
  • Restrained
  • Severe
  • Spare
  • Spartan
  • Stark
  • Unadorned
  • Uncluttered
  • Undecorated
  • Understated
  • Unelaborate
  • Unembellished
  • Unfussy
  • Unornamented
  • Unostentatious
  • Unpatterned
  • Unpretentious
  • Unsophisticated
  • Without frills
  • Without ornament/ornamentation
  • Workaday
  • No-frills

4. unpretentious

  • Artless
  • Childlike
  • Cracker-barrel
  • Guileless
  • Gullible
  • Homely
  • Honest-to-goodness
  • Humble
  • Inexperienced
  • Ingenuous
  • Innocent
  • Lowly
  • Modest
  • Naive
  • Natural
  • Ordinary
  • Quiet
  • Rustic
  • Unaffected
  • Unassuming
  • Unpretentious
  • Unsophisticated
  • Wholesome
  • Green

5. non-compound

  • Basic
  • Elementary
  • Non-complex
  • Non-compound
  • Pure
  • Single
  • Unalloyed
  • Unblended
  • Uncombined
  • Uncompounded
  • Unmixed
  • Fundamental