simplifies

VERB

make easy, intelligible

Synonyms

STRONGEST

clarify cut down facilitate reduce shorten streamline

STRONG

abridge analyze chasten decipher disentangle disinvolve elucidate explain interpret order unscramble

WEAK

boil down break down break it down clean it up clean up clear up cut the frills draw a picture get down to basics get to the meat hit the high spots lay out let daylight in let sunlight in make clear make perfectly clear make plain put in a nutshell put one straight spell out

Antonyms

STRONGEST

grow increase

STRONG

be vague confuse mix up mystify obscure

WEAK

complicate make difficult

Example Sentences

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If pro cooks seem like the last people to turn to for tips on reducing culinary ambition, consider this: Chefs tend to be ruthless simplifiers when it comes to their own meals.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 20, 2015

But the artists in “Drawing,” at G Fine Art, are not simplifiers.

From Washington Post • Jul. 2, 2015

The 19th-century historian Jacob Burckhardt spoke of modern times as an "age of brutal simplifiers".

From The Guardian • Feb. 10, 2012

Modernity's brutal simplifiers may repress and distort our capacity to live together, but do not, cannot, erase this capacity.

From The Guardian • Feb. 10, 2012

I was thinking this morning how in all our studies we had passed quickly over the intellectualists, the simplifiers, the synthesisers and explainers—back to the sources of philosophy and sanctity.

From Child and Country A Book of the Younger Generation by Comfort, Will Levington