What does "incomplex" mean?

An item or thing, as opposed to a relationship between items.

What is a synonym for "incomplex"?

Common synonyms include: bare-bones, essential, simple, simple, straightforward, stripped down.

Incomplex

adj, noun

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Definitions

Noun

1
An item or thing, as opposed to a relationship between items.
"The source of Duns's error is to regard virtual knowledge as the property of something simple, so that knowledge of one incomplex can engender knowledge of another incomplex."

Adjective

1
Not complex; simple. especially
"And as the Ear is in Birds the most simple and incomplex of any Animals Ear; so we may from it make an easy and rational Judgment how Hearing is performed […]"

Synonyms

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bare-bones essential simple simple straightforward stripped down

Antonyms

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complex

Example

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"And as the Ear is in Birds the most simple and incomplex of any Animals Ear; so we may from it make an easy and rational Judgment how Hearing is performed […]"

Etymology

From in- + complex.

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