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. Trivial; insignificant.
7. (colloquial) Feeble-minded; foolish.
8. Structurally uncomplicated.
9. Structurally uncomplicated.
10. Structurally uncomplicated.
11. Structurally uncomplicated.
12. Structurally uncomplicated.
13. Structurally uncomplicated.
14. (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. (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

ingénu

niais

simplicité

seul

aisé

nu

élémentaire

ordinaire

béotien

ignare

ignorant

inculte

niaise

brièveté

commodité

abrégé

bref

bon marche

léger

pratique

seulement

individuel

unique

unitaire

discret

sobre

plan

plat

honnête

clair

franc

crème de mil

simples

vide

zéro

humble

inoffensif

doux

libre

primaire

nigaud

simplification

commun

coutumier

normal

abruti

andouille

balourd

benêt

bourrique

buse

bêta

bête

couillon

crétin

fada

idiot

imbécile

sot

fastoche

Coupé comme

sim‧ple

Prononcé comme (IPA)

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Étymologie (Anglais)

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.