simple

Signification (Anglais)

Adj

1. Uncomplicated; lacking complexity; taken by itself, with nothing added.
2. Easy; not difficult.
3. Without ornamentation; plain.
4. Free from duplicity; guileless, innocent, straightforward.
5. Undistinguished in social condition; of no special rank.
6. (archaic) Trivial; insignificant.
7. (colloquial, euphemistic) Feeble-minded; foolish.
8. Structurally uncomplicated.
9. (broadly) Structurally uncomplicated.
10. (broadly) Structurally uncomplicated.
11. (broadly) Structurally uncomplicated.
12. (broadly, universal) Structurally uncomplicated.
13. (broadly) Structurally uncomplicated.
14. Structurally uncomplicated.
15. Structurally uncomplicated.
16. Structurally uncomplicated.
17. Structurally uncomplicated.
18. Structurally uncomplicated.
19. Structurally uncomplicated.
20. (obsolete) Mere; not other than; being only.

Noun

1. A herbal preparation made from one plant, as opposed to something made from more than one plant.
2. (broadly, obsolete) A physician.
3. A simple or atomic proposition.
4. (obsolete) Something not mixed or compounded.
5. A drawloom.
6. Part of the apparatus for raising the heddles of a drawloom.
7. A feast which is not a double or a semidouble.

Verb

To gather simples, i.e. medicinal herbs.

Concepts

simple

pur

facile

modeste

naïf

aisé

nu

élémentaire

ordinaire

seul

niais

simplicité

ingénu

crétin

discret

doux

franc

🆓

honnête

humble

idiot

ignare

ignorant

imbécile

inculte

individuel

inoffensif

léger

libre

🆓

nigaud

normal

plan

plat

pratique

primaire

seulement

sobre

sot

unique

unitaire

vide

zéro

0

benêt

bourrique

commodité

coutumier

niaise

simples

simplification

bon marche

crème de mil

Opposé de

subtle, challenging, hard, easy, flashy, tinselly, unadorned, crafty, guileful, guileless, gullible, honest, ingenuous, naive, unwise, eminent, gentle, notable, highborn, well-born, significant, unimportant, ignorable, inconsequential, insignificant, minor, negligible, trivial, unremarkable, astute, quick-witted, foolish, complex, compound, complicated

Synonymes

easy

plain

naive

uncomplicated

innocent

😇

mere

unsophisticated

stupid

artless

light

pure

ordinary

straightforward

⬆️

unpretentious

common

modest

ingenuous

unadorned

single

elementary

facile

simple-minded

honest

convenient

unaffected

sole

humble

guileless

silly

clean

simpleton

ignorant

sheer

bare

basic

candid

foolish

effortless

comprehensible

clear

unassuming

childlike

individual

dewy-eyed

popular

only

homely

feeble-minded

quiet

soft

Traductions

einfach

semplice

sencillo

simple

Einfachheit

eenvoudig

simpel

simples

Schlichtheit

leicht

simpel

απλός

puro

simple

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈsɪmpəl/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: symple

In summary

Inherited from Middle English symple, simple, from Old French and French simple, from Latin simplex (“simple”, literally “onefold”) (as opposed to duplex (“double”, literally “twofold”)), from semel (“the same”) + plicō (“I fold”). See same and fold. Compare single, singular, simultaneous, etc.
Partially displaced native English onefold.

Phrases

In simple language it is an electronic version of the card catalogue .

En langage simple, c'est une version électronique du catalogue de cartes.

And the murmur lasted longer than a simple vow would have .

Et le murmure a duré plus longtemps qu'un simple vœu.

Simple algorithms include random choice or round robin .

Les algorithmes simples incluent un choix aléatoire ou un robin à la ronde.

The simple representation also lends itself to steganography .