Simple

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English

Adjective

Simple (comparative simpler, superlative simplest)

  1. Free from duplicity; guileless, innocent, straightforward.
  2. Without ornamentation; plain.
  3. Undistinguished in social condition; of no special rank.
  4. (now rare) Trivial; insignificant.
    • 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book X:
      ‘That was a symple cause,’ seyde Sir Trystram, ‘for to sle a good knyght for seyynge well by his maystir.’
  5. Uncomplicated; taken by itself, with nothing added, pure.
    • 2001, Sydney I. Landau, Dictionaries: The Art and Craft of Lexicography, Cambridge University Press (ISBN 0-521-78512-X), page 167,
      There is no simple way to define precisely a complex arrangement of parts, however homely the object may appear to be.
  6. (now colloquial) Feeble-minded; foolish.
  7. Consisting of one single substance; uncompounded.
  8. (mathematics) Of a group: having no normal subgroup.

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Noun

Simple (plural Simples)
  1. (medicine) A preparation made from one plant, as opposed to something made from more than one plant.
  2. (logic) A simple or atomic proposition

Verb

Simple (third-person singular simple present simples, present participle simpling, simple past and past participle simpled)

  1. (transitive, intransitive, archaic) To gather simples, ie, medicinal herbs.

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Adverbs for Simple

beautifully; expensively; unnecessarily; utterly; delightfully; artlessly; graciously; refreshingly; intelligibly; pleasantly; fortunately; needlessly; starkly; childishly; severely; chastely; elegantly; gracefully; tastefully; harmoniously; appropriately; ingenuously: naively; bluntly; foolishly; delicately; daintily; charmingly; idiotically; crazily; inanely; fatuously; mindlessly

Thesaurus

Attic, Bohemian, Ciceronian, Mickey Mouse, Spartan, a certain, absolute, aesthetic, affable, amateur, an, any, any one, arrested, artistic, artless, ascetic, asinine, atomic, austere, authentic, awkward, babbling, backward, bald, bare, base, basic, blankminded, blithering, bluff, blunt, bona fide, born yesterday, bovine, brainless, burbling, butt, callow, candid, card-carrying, casual, chaste, cheerful, childish, childlike, choice, chump, classic, classical, clean, clean-cut, clear, clear as crystal, clear as day, clear-cut, coherent, comfortable, common, commonplace, comprehensible, confiding, connected, consistent, cordial, cozy, crackbrained, cracked, crass, crazy, creamy, credulous, cretinistic, cretinous, crisp, crystal-clear, crystalline, cullible, cushy, deceivable, defined, definite, degage, delicate, deludable, dense, dim-witted, dinkum, direct, discreet, distinct, dithering, dopey, doting, driveling, drooling, dry, dull, dull-witted, dumb, dupable, dupe, easily understood, easy, easy as pie, easygoing, effortless, eggshell, either, elegant, elemental, elementary, empty, empty-headed, essential, everyday, excellent, exclusive, explicit, exploitable, express, facile, fall guy, familiar, fatuous, feebleminded, finished, flat, folksy, following the letter, foolable, foolish, forthright, frank, free and easy, friendly, fundamental, garden, garden-variety, gauche, genuine, glib, gloss, good, graceful, gracile, gracious, green, groping, guileless, gull, gullible, half-baked, half-witted, haymish, hoaxable, homelike, homely, homespun, homey, homish, homogeneous, honest, honest-to-God, hoodwinkable, household, humble, humble-looking, humble-visaged, humblest, humbugable, idiotic, ignorant, illiterate, imbecile, imbecilic, in good taste, inane, inartificial, incomplex, individual, indivisible, inexperienced, inexpert, inferior, informal, ingenu, ingenuous, inglorious, innocent, innocuous, insensate, integral, intelligible, intimate, iridescent, irreducible, irregular, know-nothing, lawful, lean, least, legitimate, lifelike, light, limpid, literal, lone, loose, loud and clear, low, lowest, lowliest, lowly, lucid, luminous, mark, matter-of-fact, maundering, mean, mellow, mentally defective, mentally deficient, mentally handicapped, mentally retarded, mere, mindless, modest, monadic, mongoloid, monistic, monolithic, moronic, mother-of-pearl, nacreous, naive, naked, natural, naturalistic, neat, nescient, nitwitted, nondescript, not all there, nothing to it, oafish, obtuse, of a piece, of choice, of quality, offhand, offhanded, one, opalescent, open, openhearted, ordinary, original, outspoken, painless, pale, pastel, patinaed, peaceful, pearly, pellucid, perfect, perspicuous, persuadable, pigeon, plain, plain-speaking, plain-spoken, pleasing, polished, poor, primal, primary, prosaic, prosing, prosy, pure, pure and simple, quiet, raw, real, realistic, refined, relaxed, restrained, retarded, righteous, rightful, round, royal, rustic, sad, sap, seduceable, semigloss, senseless, severe, sheer, silly, simon-pure, simple as ABC, simple-speaking, simplehearted, simpleminded, simpletonian, sincere, single, single-hearted, single-minded, singular, slobbering, slow, slow-witted, small, smooth, snug, sober, sociable, soft, soft-colored, soft-hued, softened, sole, solid, solitary, somber, spare, square, stark, sterling, straightforward, strange to, stupid, subdued, subnormal, subordinate, subservient, subtle, sucker, sure-enough, sweet, tasteful, teachable, tender, tentative, terse, thick, thickheaded, translucent, transparent, transpicuous, trim, true to life, true to nature, true to reality, trustful, trusting, unacquainted, unadorned, unadulterated, unaffected, unalloyed, unambiguous, unanalyzable, unapprized, unartificial, unassumed, unassuming, unburdensome, unceremonious, uncluttered, uncolored, uncomplicated, uncompounded, uncomprehending, unconcocted, unconfused, unconstrained, uncontrived, unconventional, unconversant, uncopied, uncounterfeited, undecorated, understandable, understated, undesigning, undifferenced, undifferentiated, undisguised, undisguising, undistinguished, undistorted, undivided, uneducated, unelaborate, unembellished, unenhanced, unenlightened, unequivocal, unexaggerated, unexperienced, unfabricated, unfamiliar, unfanciful, unfeigned, unfeigning, unfictitious, unflattering, unguarded, uniform, unilluminated, unimaginative, unimagined, unimitated, unimportant, uninformed, uninitiated, unintelligent, uninvented, uninvolved, unique, unitary, univocal, unknowing, unlabored, unmistakable, unmitigated, unmixed, unobtrusive, unofficial, unornamented, unostentatious, unpoetical, unposted, unpretended, unpretending, unpretentious, unqualified, unreserved, unripe, unromantic, unschooled, unsimulated, unsophisticated, unspecious, unstudied, unsure, unsuspicious, unsynthetic, untaught, untroublesome, unvarnished, unversed, unwary, unwitty, upright, vacuous, verbal, verbatim, veridical, verisimilar, victimizable, weak-minded, well-chosen, well-defined, whole, witless, word-for-word, workaday, workday

Etymology

< Middle English simple < Old French and French simple < Latin simplex (“simple, literally 'onefold', as opposed to duplex, twofold, double”) < sim- (“the same”) + plicare (“to fold”): see same and fold. Compare single, singular, simultaneous, etc.

Pronunciation

Translations

Adjective

uncomplicated
simple-minded

Noun

preparation from one plant

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Anglo-Norman

Adjective

Simple m. and f. (plural simples)

  1. innocent
  2. mere; simple
  3. honest; without pretense
  4. peasant, pauper (attibutive)

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Etymology

Latin simplex

Catalan

Adjective

  1. simple (uncomplicated)
  2. single (not divided into parts)

Etymology

From Latin simplex.

Pronunciation

  • (Eastern Catalan) IPA: [ˈsimpɫə]
  • (Western Catalan) IPA: [ˈsimpɫe]

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Esperanto

Adverb

Simple

  1. simply

Etymology

simpl- + -e

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈsimple/
  • Hyphenation: sim‧ple

French

Adjective

Simple (epicene, plural Simples)

  1. simple
  2. one-way
    Un billet simple.
    A one-way ticket.

Noun

Simple m. (plural Simples)

  1. one-way ticket
  2. (baseball) single

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Galician

Adjective

Simple m. (feminine simple, masculine plural Simples, feminine plural simples)

  1. simple

Latin

Adjective

simple

  1. vocative masculine singular of simplus

Old French

Adjective

Simple m. and f. (plural simples)

  1. innocent
  2. mere; simple
  3. honest; without pretense
  4. peasant, pauper (attibutive)

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Etymology

Latin simplex

Romanian

Adjective

simple

  1. feminine plural nominative form of simplu
  2. feminine plural accusative form of simplu
  3. neuter plural nominative form of simplu
  4. neuter plural accusative form of simplu

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [ˈsim.ple]

Spanish

Adjective

  1. simple
  2. mere, uncomplicated, easy
  3. single
  4. insipid

Noun

Simple m. and f. (plural Simples)

  1. simpleton, fool
  2. (pharmacology, masculine) simple

Swedish

Adjective

Simple

  1. absolute definite natural masculine form of simpel.
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