unsimpleadj.
(un- prefix1 1. Cf. Middle Dutch onsimpel.)
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > entanglement or entangled state > complication or complexity > [adjective]
nice?a1500
plaited1532
intricablea1540
unsimple?1541
entangled1561
intrinsicate1562
Gordian1606
involved1643
complexed1646
contortuplicated1648
complicated1656
puzzled1659
involute1669
complicatea1687
complex1715
woofed1820
snaggled1896
non-transparent1939
complexified1962
the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > [adjective] > lacking simplicity
unsimple1797
?1541 R. Copland Galen's Fourth Bk. Terapeutyke sig. Aij v, in Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens For to a symple dysease a symple healynge is due, And to a composed dysease a healynge vnsymple.
a1750 A. Hill Wks. (1753) II. 274 Every thing is..unsimple, that has foreign and unnatural annexions.
1797 C. Lamb Let. 13 Feb. in Lett. C. & M. A. Lamb (1975) I. 102 I wonder you do not perceive..something unsimple and artificial, in the expression, ‘voiced a sad tale’.
1862 H. Aïdé Carr of Carrlyon II. 230 The very unsimple manners of the English lady (they could hardly be called affected, they were so much a part of herself).
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adj.?1541