uncomplicated
Britishadjective
Explanation
If something is uncomplicated, it's simple or obvious, like an uncomplicated art project for little kids or uncomplicated instructions from your teacher. If something requires a lot of thought, planning, or many steps, it's complicated — intricate or confusing. Add the prefix un-, or "not," and you get the opposite, uncomplicated. You can use this adjective for anything you think of as "a piece of cake" or "easy as pie." Eating a piece of cake or pie is uncomplicated. Baking them? That's a bit more complicated.
Example Sentences
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The menu at Stack 571 pretty much hits my sweet spot: Uncomplicated Food with a Lot of Bacon.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 15, 2021
And the author of Where Cooking Begins: Uncomplicated Recipes to Make You a Great Cook, and it is a great book.
From Salon • Mar. 30, 2019
Uncomplicated rage can feel like such a respite, a comfortable thing to cling to.
From Washington Post • Mar. 29, 2019
"Uncomplicated to complicated happens very quickly," Hagenmueller said.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 7, 2011
Uncomplicated cases are rarely fatal except in feeble and aged persons.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
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