Simple Definition
sĭmpəl
simpler, simples, simplest
adjective
simpler, simplest
Having few parts or features; not complicated or involved.
A simple pattern.
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Having or consisting of only one part, feature, substance, etc.; not compounded or complex; single.
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Easy to do, solve, or understand, as a task, question, etc.
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Without additions or qualifications; mere; bare.
The simple facts.
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Not ornate; unembellished; unadorned.
Simple clothes.
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noun
simples
A person who is ignorant or easily misled.
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Something having only one part, substance, etc.
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A medicine made from such a plant.
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A medicinal herb.
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A person of humble position.
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verb
(intransitive, archaic) To gather simples, ie, medicinal herbs.
Wiktionary
Origin of Simple
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From Middle English simple, from Old French and French simple, from Latin simplex (“simple, literally 'onefold', as opposed to duplex, twofold, double"), from sim- (“the same") + plicare (“to fold"): see same and fold. Compare single, singular, simultaneous, etc.
From Wiktionary
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Middle English from Old French from Latin simplus sem-1 in Indo-European roots and from simplex simplex
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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