Backward
Simple
Simple adjective - Free from all additions or embellishment.
Backward is a synonym for simple in ability topic. Sometimes you can use "Backward" instead an adjective "Simple", if it concerns topics such as feeble-minded.
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- Because of said isolation and their old-fashioned lifestyles, many mock them as being backward and simple, though only, of course, in forms of media they do not read.
Source: Acceptable Religious Targets - Second step, and a smart, cynical "space rogue" begins to slowly realize that this "God-forsaken hole of the Universe" isn't as simple and backward as it seems.
Source: Creator / Vladimir Vasilyev -
The advantage of CAV was that freeze-framing, scanning forward and backward, etc., could be done by a simple mechanical variation of the motor speed.
Source: Useful Notes / LaserDisc
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