simple

Meaning

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.

easy

plain

𐑅𐐮𐑋𐐹𐐲𐑊

single-digit

mentally deficient

foolish person

not complicated

stupid person

round-eyed

not difficult

easy to understand

indivisible by

be honest

honest and homely

ruggedly honest

rustic simplicity

be credulous

be gullible

na?ve

art-less

dull of intellect

frgual

intellectually dull

prose-like

cream of millet

abbreviate

clearness

Frequency

Hyphenated as

sim‧ple

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈsɪmpəl/

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.

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