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