simple vs complicated
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
- difficult to analyze or understand
Examples
The films he made look simple at first glance, yet already invite a more complicated response.
What seemed an easy task becomes complicated by locals' objections and, ultimately, the landman's own crisis of conscience.
– The agreement contains a complicated escrow system that may allow the $480 million to be funneled from the Treasury Department to the White House.
