simple vs simplistic
Definitions
adjective
- unornamented
- having few parts; not complex or complicated or involved
- (botany) of leaf shapes; of leaves having no divisions or subdivisions
- lacking mental capacity and subtlety
- easy and not involved or complicated
noun
- a person lacking intelligence or common sense
- any herbaceous plant having medicinal properties
Examples
I'd live the transient and ephemeral existence of a backpacker for a week, an existence of freedom and simple pleasures.
It's a bit unexpected not to include any measures of syntactic complexity - even something as simple as mean sentence length.
It was a simple rectangle of crudely mounded basalt rocks, a distinctive arrangement reminiscent of the way Samoans and other Polynesians marked their dead in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Definitions
adjective
- characterized by extreme and often misleading simplicity
Examples
We should also not make the rather simplistic assumption that co-residence implies a strong bond between relatives.
At the outset, a solution to Bangalore's clogging drains can't be that simplistic.
With all due respect, I think that your perspective here is horribly simplistic, uncomfortably mis-targeted (to the point of near endorsement), and quite diversionary from the essential core issue.
