simple

Forms

1.Uncomplicated; lacking complexity; taken by itself, with nothing added.
- We are engaged in a great work, a treatise on our river fortifications, perhaps? But since when did army officers afford the luxury of amanuenses in this simple republic?
- The simplest soliton is the domain wall with co-dimension one, and the next simplest is the vortex with co-dimension two, whereas the co-dimension three (four) soliton is called monopole (instanton).
- Primitive people, colossally ignorant of the cause of disease and of curative processes, attributed to supernatural agencies any causes and effects for which their simple minds could give no natural explanations.
2.Easy; not difficult.
- There is no simple way to define precisely a complex arrangement of parts, however homely the object may appear to be.
3.Without ornamentation; plain.
- I'll give you a simple example.
- I can't tell her now. It's not that simple anymore.
- I live a simple life.
4.Free from duplicity; guileless, innocent, straightforward.
- Full many fine men go upon my score, as simple as I stand here, and I trust them.

1.A herbal preparation made from one plant, as opposed to something made from more than one plant.
- I know there are some simples, which in operation are moistening and some drying.
- Dere is some simples in my closet, dat I vill not for the varld I shall leave behind.
- The first fellow that picked an herb to cure himself had a bit of pluck. Simples. Want to be careful.
2.A drawloom.
3.Part of the apparatus for raising the heddles of a drawloom.
4.A simple or atomic proposition.
- Peter van Inwagen, for example, believes that there are no ordinary objects, no chairs or shirts or shoes. Right here there are just some simples, atoms or whatever, arranged shoe-wise.

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Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *sem-

Proto-Indo-European *sm̥-der.

Latin sem-

Proto-Italic *-plosder.

Latin -plus

Latin simplusbor.

Old French simplebor.

Middle English symple

English simple