| pure | | |
| adj. | 1. pure | free of extraneous elements of any kind.; "pure air and water"; "pure gold"; "pure primary colors"; "the violin's pure and lovely song"; "pure tones"; "pure oxygen" |
| ~ clean | ritually clean or pure. |
| ~ axenic | (used of cultures of microorganisms) completely free from other organisms.; "an axenic culture" |
| ~ clean, fresh | free from impurities.; "clean water"; "fresh air" |
| ~ unclouded, clean, clear, light | (of sound or color) free from anything that dulls or dims.; "efforts to obtain a clean bass in orchestral recordings"; "clear laughter like a waterfall"; "clear reds and blues"; "a light lilting voice like a silver bell" |
| ~ fine | free from impurities; having a high or specified degree of purity.; "gold 21 carats fine" |
| ~ native | as found in nature in the elemental form.; "native copper" |
| ~ unmingled, unmixed, sheer, plain | not mixed with extraneous elements.; "plain water"; "sheer wine"; "not an unmixed blessing" |
| ~ pristine | completely free from dirt or contamination.; "pristine mountain snow" |
| ~ sublimate | made pure. |
| ~ unadulterated | not mixed with impurities.; "unadulterated maple syrup" |
| ~ unalloyed | free from admixture.; "unalloyed metal"; "unalloyed pleasure" |
| ~ unpolluted, uncontaminated | free from admixture with noxious elements; clean.; "unpolluted streams"; "a contaminated lake" |
| ~ virginal | untouched or undefiled.; "nor is there anything more virginal than the shimmer of young foliage" |
| ~ processed | prepared or converted from a natural state by subjecting to a special process.; "processed ores" |
| adj. | 2. arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, perfect, pure, sodding, staring, stark, thoroughgoing, unadulterated, utter | without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers.; "an arrant fool"; "a complete coward"; "a consummate fool"; "a double-dyed villain"; "gross negligence"; "a perfect idiot"; "pure folly"; "what a sodding mess"; "stark staring mad"; "a thoroughgoing villain"; "utter nonsense"; "the unadulterated truth" |
| ~ unmitigated | not diminished or moderated in intensity or severity; sometimes used as an intensifier.; "unmitigated suffering"; "an unmitigated horror"; "an unmitigated lie" |
| adj. | 3. pure, saturated | (of color) being chromatically pure; not diluted with white or grey or black. |
| ~ intense, vivid | (of color) having the highest saturation.; "vivid green"; "intense blue" |
| adj. | 4. pure | free from discordant qualities. |
| ~ harmonious | musically pleasing. |
| adj. | 5. pure | concerned with theory and data rather than practice; opposed to applied.; "pure science" |
| ~ theoretical | concerned with theories rather than their practical applications.; "theoretical physics" |
| adj. | 6. pure | (used of persons or behaviors) having no faults; sinless.; "I felt pure and sweet as a new baby"; "pure as the driven snow" |
| ~ chaste | morally pure (especially not having experienced sexual intercourse).; "a holy woman innocent and chaste" |
| ~ undefiled, immaculate | free from stain or blemish. |
| ~ white | free from moral blemish or impurity; unsullied.; "in shining white armor" |
| adj. | 7. pure, vestal, virgin, virginal, virtuous | in a state of sexual virginity.; "pure and vestal modesty"; "a spinster or virgin lady"; "men have decreed that their women must be pure and virginal" |
| ~ chaste | morally pure (especially not having experienced sexual intercourse).; "a holy woman innocent and chaste" |
| simple | | |
| n. (plant) | 1. simple | any herbaceous plant having medicinal properties. |
| ~ archaicism, archaism | the use of an archaic expression. |
| ~ herb, herbaceous plant | a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests. |
| n. (person) | 2. simple, simpleton | a person lacking intelligence or common sense. |
| ~ individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul | a human being.; "there was too much for one person to do" |
| ~ airhead | a flighty scatterbrained simpleton.; "she's a total airhead"; "every airhead on a big salary rushed out to buy one" |
| ~ dimwit, doofus, nitwit, half-wit | a stupid incompetent person. |
| ~ dingbat | a silly empty-headed person.; "you would be a dingbat even to try it"; "yet here he was with an upper class dingbat who just happened to be married to his sister" |
| ~ boob, booby, pinhead, dope, dumbbell, dummy | an ignorant or foolish person. |
| ~ fool, muggins, saphead, tomfool, sap | a person who lacks good judgment. |
| ~ changeling, cretin, half-wit, idiot, imbecile, moron, retard | a person of subnormal intelligence. |
| ~ idiot savant | person who is mentally retarded in general but who displays remarkable aptitude in some limited field (usually involving memory). |
| ~ nebbech, nebbish | (Yiddish) a timid unfortunate simpleton. |
| ~ nincompoop, ninny, poop | a stupid foolish person. |
| ~ forgetful person, scatterbrain | a flighty and disorganized person. |
| ~ schlemiel, shlemiel | (Yiddish) a dolt who is a habitual bungler. |
| ~ schlep, schlepper, shlep, shlepper | (Yiddish) an awkward and stupid person. |
| ~ schnook, shnook | (Yiddish) a gullible simpleton more to be pitied than despised.; "don't be such an apologetic shnook" |
| ~ sheep | a timid defenseless simpleton who is readily preyed upon. |
| ~ space cadet | someone who seems unable to respond appropriately to reality (as if under the influence of some narcotic drug). |
| ~ lame, square | someone who doesn't understand what is going on. |
| ~ dolt, dullard, pillock, poor fish, pudden-head, pudding head, stupe, stupid, stupid person | a person who is not very bright.; "The economy, stupid!" |
| ~ subnormal | a person of less than normal intelligence. |
| ~ twerp, twirp, twit | someone who is regarded as contemptible. |
| adj. | 3. simple | having few parts; not complex or complicated or involved.; "a simple problem"; "simple mechanisms"; "a simple design"; "a simple substance" |
| ~ easy | posing no difficulty; requiring little effort.; "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" |
| ~ plain | not elaborate or elaborated; simple.; "plain food"; "stuck to the plain facts"; "a plain blue suit"; "a plain rectangular brick building" |
| ~ unsubdivided, simple | (botany) of leaf shapes; of leaves having no divisions or subdivisions. |
| ~ simplex | having only one part or element.; "a simplex word has no affixes and is not part of a compound--like `boy' compared with `boyish' or `house' compared with `houseboat'" |
| ~ simplistic | characterized by extreme and often misleading simplicity.; "a simplistic theory of the universe"; "simplistic arguments of the ruling party" |
| ~ unanalyzable, undecomposable | representing the furthest possible extent of analysis or division into parts.; "a feeling is a simple and undecomposable mental state"; "this weight of evidence is something mystical and unanalyzable" |
| ~ uncomplicated, unsophisticated | lacking complexity.; "small and uncomplicated cars for those really interested in motoring"; "an unsophisticated machine" |
| adj. | 4. elementary, simple, uncomplicated, unproblematic | easy and not involved or complicated.; "an elementary problem in statistics"; "elementary, my dear Watson"; "a simple game"; "found an uncomplicated solution to the problem" |
| ~ easy | posing no difficulty; requiring little effort.; "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" |
| adj. | 5. bare, mere, simple | apart from anything else; without additions or modifications.; "only the bare facts"; "shocked by the mere idea"; "the simple passage of time was enough"; "the simple truth" |
| ~ plain | not elaborate or elaborated; simple.; "plain food"; "stuck to the plain facts"; "a plain blue suit"; "a plain rectangular brick building" |
| adj. | 6. childlike, dewy-eyed, round-eyed, simple, wide-eyed | exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity.; "childlike trust"; "dewy-eyed innocence"; "listened in round-eyed wonder" |
| ~ naif, naive | marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience.; "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" |
| adj. | 7. dim-witted, simple, simple-minded | lacking mental capacity and subtlety. |
| ~ retarded | relatively slow in mental or emotional or physical development.; "providing a secure and sometimes happy life for the retarded" |
| adj. | 8. simple, unsubdivided | (botany) of leaf shapes; of leaves having no divisions or subdivisions. |
| ~ phytology, botany | the branch of biology that studies plants. |
| ~ acerate, acerose, acicular, needle-shaped | narrow and long and pointed; as pine leaves. |
| ~ acuminate | (of a leaf shape) narrowing to a slender point. |
| ~ apiculate | (of a leaf shape) having a short sharply pointed tip. |
| ~ caudate | (of a leaf shape) tapering gradually into a long taillike tip. |
| ~ cordate, cordiform, heart-shaped | (of a leaf) shaped like a heart. |
| ~ cuneate, wedge-shaped | (of a leaf shape) narrowly triangular, wider at the apex and tapering toward the base. |
| ~ deltoid | triangular or suggesting a capital delta, with a point at the apex. |
| ~ dolabrate, dolabriform | having the shape of the head of an ax or cleaver. |
| ~ elliptic | (of a leaf shape) in the form of an ellipse. |
| ~ bladelike, ensiform, sword-shaped, swordlike | shaped like a sword blade.; "the iris has an ensiform leaf" |
| ~ hastate, spearhead-shaped | (of a leaf shape) like a spear point, with flaring pointed lobes at the base. |
| ~ lancelike, lanceolate | (of a leaf shape) shaped like a lance head; narrow and tapering to a pointed apex. |
| ~ elongate, linear | (of a leaf shape) long and narrow. |
| ~ lyrate | (of a leaf shape) having curvature suggestive of a lyre. |
| ~ needled | of trees whose leaves are acerate. |
| ~ two-needled | (of conifers) having two needles. |
| ~ three-needled | (of conifers) having three needles. |
| ~ four-needled | (of conifers) having four needles. |
| ~ five-needled | (of conifers) having five needles. |
| ~ obtuse | (of a leaf shape) rounded at the apex. |
| ~ oblanceolate | (of a leaf shape) having a broad rounded apex and a tapering base. |
| ~ oblong | (of a leaf shape) having a somewhat elongated form with approximately parallel sides. |
| ~ obovate | (of a leaf shape) egg-shaped with the narrower end at the base. |
| ~ orbicular, orbiculate | circular or nearly circular. |
| ~ ovate | of a leaf shape; egg-shaped with the broader end at the base. |
| ~ fiddle-shaped, pandurate, panduriform | (of a leaf shape) having rounded ends and a contracted center. |
| ~ peltate, shield-shaped | (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). |
| ~ perfoliate | (of a leaf) having the base united around (and apparently pierced by) the stem. |
| ~ kidney-shaped, reniform | (of a leaf or bean shape) resembling the shape of kidney. |
| ~ arrow-shaped, sagittate, sagittiform | (of a leaf shape) like an arrow head without flaring base lobes. |
| ~ spatula-shaped, spatulate | (of a leaf shape) having a broad rounded apex and a narrow base. |
| ~ unlobed | without lobes. |
| ~ simple | having few parts; not complex or complicated or involved.; "a simple problem"; "simple mechanisms"; "a simple design"; "a simple substance" |
| ~ smooth | of the margin of a leaf shape; not broken up into teeth. |
| adj. | 9. simple | unornamented.; "a simple country schoolhouse"; "her black dress--simple to austerity" |
| ~ plain | not elaborate or elaborated; simple.; "plain food"; "stuck to the plain facts"; "a plain blue suit"; "a plain rectangular brick building" |
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