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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
uncomplicated

1724, from un- (1) "not" + complicated.

Wiktionary
uncomplicated
  1. simple, not complicated, basic. v

  2. (en-past of: uncomplicate)

WordNet
uncomplicated
  1. adj. lacking complexity; "small and uncomplicated cars for those really interested in motoring"; "an unsophisticated machine" [syn: unsophisticated]

  2. easy and not involved or complicated; "an elementary problem in statistics"; "elementary, my dear Watson"; "a simple game"; "found an uncomplicated solution to the problem" [syn: elementary, simple, unproblematic]

Usage examples of "uncomplicated".

Urth blinked slowly at him and the bland look on his round face became, if anything, blander and more childlike in its uncomplicated pleasure.

The miracle of this uncomplicated monody with its minimal chordal accompaniment is not diminished by our hindsight knowledge that it had been there waiting, throughout recorded history, yet unnoticed by the bearded creaking practitioners of the complex.

The skinhead was trying to show the old Nazi how to navigate through the uncomplicated computer system that had come already installed on the machine.

What he was after was a steady, uncomplicated beat: a thumping backbeat, Jimmy called it.

It was a display uncomplicated by planets, for Pesthouse was a blue giant.

I watched them go shakily into the hotel and thought uncomplicated thoughts, like hoping Datepalm would cover himself with glory for them, and Dozen Roses also, once he could jump.

It was a relief to get back to the Accident Room, and because there was a sudden rush on, find herself helping one of the housemen with some uncomplicated arm plasters.

There was yet another part of him that wanted to forget her entirely and concentrate on the far more sensible, infinitely decent Olivia, and yet she seemed so uncomplicated, so able to give and to receive that she frightened him.

Heart clots were very common, if not universally present, in cases of ulceration of the intestinal mucous membrane, while in the uncomplicated cases of diarrhea and scurvy, the blood was fluid and did not coagulate readily, and the heart clots and fibrous concretions were almost universally absent.

If all are such as you, cousina peacock-pretty pederast with a voice like a girl and no more body hair than the boy children you beat and abuse, with less courage than a baby mousethen mayhap a mainland ruled by clean, normal, courageous, and uncomplicated barbarians would make for better neighbors.

He shrugged, as if that was all, as if it were just as simple and as uncomplicated as that.

His aspirations were simple and uncomplicated, so he was rarely disappointed and often amazed at the surprises life sprang on him.

From the first the old man had struck Huddy as a simple, uncomplicated type.

Three years of uncomplicated enjoyment had crumbled to disillusionment.

The girl had a special place in her affections, for apart from being open and uncomplicated, she had a very lovable personality, one that was sunny, cheerful, and perennially optimistic, and she was a dynamic girl, filled with enthusiasm for life and her work.