Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Lexicon: silver – simultaneous
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silver, n. [OE, obscure origin.]
- Eloquence; beautiful words; elegant language; [fig.] poetry; literary verse; creative writing.
- Argent color.
- Melody; musical transcription; [fig.] scripture; sacred written text; [metaphor] lyric poetry; metrical verse.
- Seawater; shining expanse of ocean; [fig.] sky; heaven; [metaphor] eternity; infinity.
similar, adj. [OFr 'like, resembling'.]
- Parallel; analogous; looking alike.
- Interchangeable; kindred; looking alike although essentially different.
- Almost the same; of essentially the same nature.
similitude, n. [OFr < L. 'like'.]
Replica; duplicate; twin; likeness; counterpart; similar appearance.
simple (-er, -est), adj. [OFr < L. sem-, 'one' + -plicāre, 'fold'.]
- Small; less than ten; of little worth.
- Basic; primary; uncomplicated; not elaborate.
- Austere; severe; stark.
- Common; humble; lowly; modest; plain; unpretentious; undistinguished; unsophisticated; not royal; free from ostentation.
- Tiny; minor; capillary.
- Easy; somewhat bearable; not so difficult.
- Artless; innocent; seamless.
- Weak; childish; less experienced.
- Pure; clear; untainted.
- Regular; normal; prosaic; literal; expository; [fig.] non-poetic; non-metrical; non-lyrical.
- Fundamental; easy to recognize; hard to ignore.
- Maiden; smooth; unspoiled.
- Free; unencumbered; natural; unaffected; not artificial.
- Ordinary; not further distinguished in quality.
- Flat; one-sided; one-dimensional.
- Ignorant; foolish; unsuspecting.
- Undecorated; unadorned.
- Lone; single; solitary; by itself; with nothing added.
simple-hearted, adj. [see simple, adj. + heart, n.]
Innocent; guileless; naive; artless; childlike; ingenuous; [fig.] inexperienced; ignorant about death; possessing little or no knowledge.
simplicity, n. [OFr < L. 'simple'.]
- Candor; directness; authenticity; reality; freedom from artificiality.
- Humility; meekness; openness; willingness to share with others.
- Sincerity; genuineness; freedom from ostentation.
- Lowliness; insignificant position; lack of prestige; being undistinguished.
- Elegance; plain style; sermo humilis; lack of intellectual pretense.
simplify (simplified), v. [OFr < L. 'to make simple'.]
Demystify; understand; explain; interpret; translate; paraphrase; construe; parse; make sense of; reduce to rational terms.
simply, adv. [OFr < L. ' gently, nobly, simple-like'.]
- Merely; just; plainly; surely; quite clearly; without a doubt.
- Unconditionally; automatically; reflexively; without questioning.
- Only; uniquely; specifically; evidently; manifestly.
simulate, v. [L. 'to make like or imitate, counterfeit'.]
- Feign; fake; affect; dissemble; invent; contrive; counterfeit; sham; deceptively assume; make oneself appear to have.
- Imitate; mimic; copy; emulate; recreate in order to experience.
- Posture; pretend to be different from what one really is.
- Demonstrate; act out in order to educate others.
simultaneous, adv. [L. 'at the same time'.]
- Together; both.
- Coincidentally; concurrently.
- In tandem; at the same time.