| sima | (noun) rock that form the continuous lower layer of the earth's crust; rich in silicon and magnesium | - |
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| simal | (noun) East Indian silk cotton tree yielding fibers inferior to kapok | Synonyms: Bombax ceiba, Bombax malabarica, red silk-cotton tree |
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| simarre | (noun) a fur-lined coat decorated with braid, worn in the sixteenth century. | Synonyms: chamarre, chimer |
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| simazine | (noun) a herbicide used to control weeds (especially among crops) | - |
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| simian | (adjective) relating to or resembling an ape | - |
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| (noun) an ape or monkey | - |
| similar | (adjective) marked by correspondence or resemblance | - |
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| (adjective) resembling or similar; having the same or some of the same characteristics; often used in combination | Synonyms: like |
| (adjective) having the same or similar characteristics | Synonyms: alike, like |
| (adjective) capable of replacing or changing places with something else; permitting mutual substitution without loss of function or suitability | Synonyms: exchangeable, interchangeable, standardised, standardized |
| (adjective) (of words) expressing closely related meanings | - |
| similarity | (noun) the quality of being similar | - |
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| (noun) a Gestalt principle of organization holding that (other things being equal) parts of a stimulus field that are similar to each other tend to be perceived as belonging together as a unit | Synonyms: law of similarity |
| similarly | (adverb) in like or similar manner | Synonyms: likewise |
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| simile | (noun) a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with `like' or `as') | - |
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| similitude | (noun) a duplicate copy | Synonyms: counterpart, twin |
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| (noun) similarity in appearance or character or nature between persons or things | Synonyms: alikeness, likeness |
| simmer | (noun) temperature just below the boiling point | - |
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| (verb) boil slowly at low temperature | - |
| simmering | (noun) cooking in a liquid that has been brought to a boil | Synonyms: boiling, stewing |
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| simmpleness | (noun) absence of affectation or pretense | Synonyms: simplicity |
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| simnel | (noun) a crisp bread of fine white flour | - |
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| (noun) a fruitcake (sometimes covered with almond paste) eaten at mid-Lent or Easter or Christmas | - |
| simoleons | (noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, sugar, wampum |
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| simony | (noun) traffic in ecclesiastical offices or preferments | Synonyms: barratry |
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| simoom | (noun) a violent hot sand-laden wind on the deserts of Arabia and North Africa | Synonyms: samiel, simoon |
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| simoon | (noun) a violent hot sand-laden wind on the deserts of Arabia and North Africa | Synonyms: samiel, simoom |
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| simper | (noun) a silly self-conscious smile | - |
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| (verb) smile affectedly or derisively | Synonyms: smirk |
| simperer | (noun) a smiler whose smile is silly and self-conscious and sometimes coy | - |
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| simperingly | (adverb) with a lack of courage and determination | Synonyms: pusillanimously |
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| simple | (adjective) (botany) of leaf shapes; of leaves having no divisions or subdivisions | Synonyms: unsubdivided |
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| (adjective) having few parts; not complex or complicated or involved | - |
| (adjective) easy and not involved or complicated | Synonyms: elementary, uncomplicated, unproblematic |
| (adjective) exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity | Synonyms: childlike, dewy-eyed, round-eyed, wide-eyed |
| (adjective) unornamented | - |
| (adjective) lacking mental capacity and subtlety | Synonyms: dim-witted, simple-minded |
| (adjective) apart from anything else; without additions or modifications | Synonyms: bare, mere |
| (noun) a person lacking intelligence or common sense | Synonyms: simpleton |
| (noun) any herbaceous plant having medicinal properties | - |
| simpleness | (noun) the quality of being simple or uncompounded | Synonyms: simplicity |
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| (noun) lack of ornamentation | Synonyms: chasteness, restraint, simplicity |
| (noun) freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort | Synonyms: ease, easiness, simplicity |
| (noun) a lack of penetration or subtlety | Synonyms: simple mindedness, simplicity |
| simpleton | (noun) a person lacking intelligence or common sense | Synonyms: simple |
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| simplex | (adjective) having only one part or element | - |
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| (adjective) allowing communication in only one direction at a time, or in telegraphy allowing only one message over a line at a time | - |
| simplicity | (noun) freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort | Synonyms: ease, easiness, simpleness |
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| (noun) lack of ornamentation | Synonyms: chasteness, restraint, simpleness |
| (noun) the quality of being simple or uncompounded | Synonyms: simpleness |
| (noun) absence of affectation or pretense | Synonyms: simmpleness |
| (noun) a lack of penetration or subtlety | Synonyms: simple mindedness, simpleness |
| simplification | (noun) elimination of superfluous details | - |
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| (noun) the act of reducing complexity | Synonyms: reduction |
| (noun) an explanation that omits superfluous details and reduces complexity | - |
| simplify | (verb) make simpler or easier or reduce in complexity or extent | - |
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| simplism | (noun) an act of excessive simplification; the act of making something seem simpler than it really is | Synonyms: oversimplification |
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| (noun) an explanation that simplifies too far to the point of misrepresentation | Synonyms: oversimplification |
| simplistic | (adjective) characterized by extreme and often misleading simplicity | - |
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| simply | (adverb) and nothing more | Synonyms: but, just, merely, only |
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| (adverb) in a simple manner; without extravagance or embellishment | Synonyms: plainly |
| (adverb) absolutely; altogether; really | - |
| (adverb) (used for emphasis) absolutely | Synonyms: just |
| simulacrum | (noun) a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture) | Synonyms: effigy, image |
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| (noun) an insubstantial or vague semblance | - |
| simulate | (verb) make a pretence of | Synonyms: assume, feign, sham |
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| (verb) create a representation or simulation of | Synonyms: model |
| (verb) reproduce someone's behavior or looks | Synonyms: copy, imitate |
| simulated | (adjective) not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article | Synonyms: fake, false, faux, imitation |
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| (adjective) reproduced or made to resemble; imitative in character | - |
| simulation | (noun) the act of giving a false appearance | Synonyms: feigning, pretence, pretending, pretense |
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| (noun) the act of imitating the behavior of some situation or some process by means of something suitably analogous (especially for the purpose of study or personnel training) | - |
| (noun) representation of something (sometimes on a smaller scale) | Synonyms: model |
| (noun) (computer science) the technique of representing the real world by a computer program | Synonyms: computer simulation |
| simulator | (noun) a machine that simulates an environment for the purpose of training or research | - |
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| simulcast | (noun) a broadcast that is carried simultaneously by radio and television (or by FM and AM radio) | - |
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| simultaneity | (noun) happening or existing or done at the same time | Synonyms: simultaneousness |
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| simultaneous | (adjective) occurring or operating at the same time | Synonyms: co-occurrent, coincident, coincidental, coinciding, concurrent, cooccurring |
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| simultaneously | (adverb) at the same instant | Synonyms: at the same time |
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| simultaneousness | (noun) happening or existing or done at the same time | Synonyms: simultaneity |
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| simvastatin | (noun) an oral lipid-lowering medicine (trade name Zocor) administered to reduce blood cholesterol levels; recommended after heart attacks | Synonyms: Zocor |
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