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Uncomplicated   /ənkˈɑmpləkˌeɪtɪd/   Listen
Uncomplicated

adjective
1.
Lacking complexity.  Synonym: unsophisticated.  "An unsophisticated machine"
2.
Easy and not involved or complicated.  Synonyms: elementary, simple, unproblematic.  "Elementary, my dear Watson" , "A simple game" , "Found an uncomplicated solution to the problem"






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"Uncomplicated" Quotes from Famous Books



... with masses of apparatus from the laboratory in the Lunar Apennines. He labored lovingly, fanatically. Like most spectacular discoveries, the Dabney field was basically simple. It was almost idiotically uncomplicated. In theory it was a condition of the space just outside one surface of a sheet of metal. It was like that conduction-layer on the wires of a cross-country power-cable, when electricity is transmitted in the form of high-frequency ...
— Operation: Outer Space • William Fitzgerald Jenkins

... a look at the televideo, too. I was beginning to realize that Thomas was not really simple; he was merely uncomplicated. ...
— Greylorn • John Keith Laumer

... stages, with no aids to observation, only the roughest comparisons of cases could be made, and only the most marked differences perceived; it is obvious that only the most simple laws of dependence could be ascertained—only those laws which, being uncomplicated with others, and not disturbed in their manifestations, required no niceties of observation to disentangle them. Whence it appears not only that in proportion as knowledge becomes quantitative ...
— Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects - Everyman's Library • Herbert Spencer

... burn up sooner or later, provided they are not housed in brick or stone and iron. I don't mean that you will see in the registry of deaths that this or that particular tutor died of well-marked, uncomplicated starvation. They may, even, in extreme cases, be carried off by a thin, watery kind of apoplexy, which sounds very well in the returns, but means little to those who know that it is only debility settling on the head. Generally, however, they fade and waste ...
— The Professor at the Breakfast Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes (Sr.)

... accidental feeling, but permanent character; not violent action, but repose. In the great work of the golden age the thought of the artist was happily limited so that the form was adequate to its expression. One single motive was all that he tried to express a motive uncomplicated by details of specific situation, a type of general beauty unmixed with the peculiar suggestions of special and individual emotion. When the onward impulse led the artist to pass over the severe limits which bounded the thought of the earlier school, he found his medium becoming less adequate ...
— TITLE • AUTHOR

... of respite—the temptation was irresistible. And he really liked the kind uncomplicated Hickses. A wholesome honesty and simplicity breathed through all their opulence, as if the rich trappings of their present life still exhaled the fragrance of their native prairies. The mere fact of being with such people was like a purifying bath. When the yacht touched at Naples he agreed ...
— The Glimpses of the Moon • Edith Wharton



Words linked to "Uncomplicated" :   unsophisticated, simple, easy, elementary, unproblematic



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