VI. WORDS RELATING TO THE SENTIMENT AND MORAL POWERS

II. PERSONAL AFFECTIONS

2. Discriminative Affections

Simplicity.

[Antonyms: ornament.]

[Nouns] simplicity; plainness, homeliness; undress, chastity.

[Verbs] be simple

render simple; simplify.

[Adjectives] simple, plain; homely, homespun; ordinary, household.

unaffected; free from affectation, free from ornament; simplex munditiis [Horace]; sans facon, en deshabille.

chaste, inornate, severe.

unadorned, unornamented, undecked, ungarnished, unarranged, untrimmed, unvarnished.

bald, flat, dull.

[Phrases] veritatis simplex oratio est.