simplify

Verb

Meaning

To make simple; to make less complex; to make clear by giving the explanation for; to show an easier or shorter process for doing or making.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

clear ease interpret clarify illuminate popularize simplistic decipher unravel paraphrase elucidate rationalize untangle expedite disentangle

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Antonyms

complicate buffalo ravel fox faze floor

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Hypernyms

change alter modify

Hyponyms

reduce oversimplify

Phrases with the word

to simplify simplify too much I simplify simplify for you simplify to you simplify excessively

Derivatives

simplified simplifying

Examples

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. Hans Hofmann

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify. Henry David Thoreau

The junk merchant doesn't sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to his product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise. He degrades and simplifies the client. William S. Burroughs

Simplify, simplify, simplify. Henry David Thoreau

The more you try to simplify things the more you complicate them. You create rules, build walls, push people away, lie to yourself and ignore true feelings. That is not simplifying things. Cecelia Ahern

My goal is to simplify complexity. I just want to build stuff that really simplifies our base human interaction. Jack Dorsey

Close letter words and terms

simplified language simplified sewerage simplifier simplify excessively simplify for you simplify to you