simple

Meaning

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.

Opposite of

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

Synonyms

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

Translations

simple

einfach

semplice

sencillo

simple

pur

facile

Einfachheit

eenvoudig

simples

simpel

Schlichtheit

leicht

simpel

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈsɪmpəl/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: 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.

Sentences

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

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

Simple algorithms include random choice or round robin .

The simple representation also lends itself to steganography .