different between faze vs simplistic

English

Alternative forms

• phase (see notes)

Etymology

From English dialectal (Kentish) feeze, feese (“to alarm, discomfit, frighten”), from Middle English f?sen (“to chase, drive away; put to flight; discomfit, frighten, terrify”), from Old English f?san, f?san (“to send forth; to hasten, impel, stimulate; to banish, drive away, put to flight; to prepare oneself”), from Proto-Germanic *funsijan? (“to predispose, make favourable; to make ready”), from Proto-Indo-European *pent- (“to go; to walk”). The word is cognate with Old Norse fýsa (“to drive, goad; to admonish”), Old Saxon f?sian (“to strive”).

Citations for faze in the Oxford English Dictionary start in 1830, and usage was established by 1890.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: f?z, IPA^(key): /fe?z/
• Homophone: phase
• Rhymes: -e?z

Verb

faze (third-person singular simple present fazes, present participle fazing, simple past and past participle fazed)

1. (transitive, informal) To frighten or cause hesitation; to daunt, put off (usually used in the negative); to disconcert, to perturb. [from mid 19th c.]

Usage notes

The spelling phase is sometimes used for faze; including by such notables as Mark Twain and The New York Times.

Alternative forms

• feaze

Derived terms

• unfazed

Translations

References

Kabuverdianu

Verb

faze

1. do, make

Etymology

From Portuguese fazer.

References

• Gonçalves, Manuel (2015) Capeverdean Creole-English dictionary, ?ISBN

Portuguese

Verb

faze

1. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of fazer

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?faze]

Noun

faze f

1. indefinite plural of faz?
2. indefinite genitive/dative singular of faz?

English

Etymology

simple +? -istic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?m?pl?st?k/

Adjective

simplistic (comparative more simplistic, superlative most simplistic)

1. Overly simple.
2. In a manner that simplifies a concept or issue so that its nuance and complexity are lost or important details are overlooked.
   • 1960, Allen S. Whiting, China Crosses the Yalu: the Decision to Enter the Korean War

     (Mao's) reliance on simplistic Soviet interpretations was reflected in his dismissal of Hitler as "a mere will-less puppet of the reactionary capitalists."

   • 1967, Jacques Lambert, Latin America: Social Structure and Political Institutions

     The cliché is not untrue, but, like all generalisations, it distorts reality so that overly simplistic judgments have to be tempered by a few qualifications.

3. (obsolete) Of or relating to simples, or medicinal herbs.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of John Gardner Wilkinson to this entry?)

Usage notes

• Simplistic is not to be conflated with simple; simplistic implies simplicity that distorts the topic, whereas simple does not. Degrees of comparison such as "more simplistic" and expressions such as "overly simplistic" accordingly are in some sense tautological and some speakers avoid them.

Derived terms

• oversimplistic
• oversimplistically
• simplistically
• simplisticness
• unsimplistic

Translations

See also

• simplism n.
• simplistically adv.
• simpleton
• simplified

References