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Simple   /sˈɪmpəl/   Listen
Simple

adjective
(compar. simpler; superl. simplest)
1.
Having few parts; not complex or complicated or involved.  "Simple mechanisms" , "A simple design" , "A simple substance"
2.
Easy and not involved or complicated.  Synonyms: elementary, uncomplicated, unproblematic.  "Elementary, my dear Watson" , "A simple game" , "Found an uncomplicated solution to the problem"
3.
Apart from anything else; without additions or modifications.  Synonyms: bare, mere.  "Shocked by the mere idea" , "The simple passage of time was enough" , "The simple truth"
4.
Exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity.  Synonyms: childlike, dewy-eyed, round-eyed, wide-eyed.  "Dewy-eyed innocence" , "Listened in round-eyed wonder"
5.
Lacking mental capacity and subtlety.  Synonyms: dim-witted, simple-minded.
6.
(botany) of leaf shapes; of leaves having no divisions or subdivisions.  Synonym: unsubdivided.
7.
Unornamented.  "Her black dress--simple to austerity"
noun
1.
Any herbaceous plant having medicinal properties.
2.
A person lacking intelligence or common sense.  Synonym: simpleton.



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"Simple" Quotes from Famous Books



... herself very far from desiring a masculine education for women. In fact, she was well versed in English literature, read French with ease, and knew something of Italian—German was not thought of in those days. She had a sweet voice, and sang to her own accompaniment simple old songs which still linger in her nephew's ear. Her favourite authors were Johnson, whose strong sense was congenial to her, while she happily did not allow him to infect her pure and easy style, Cowper, Richardson and Crabbe. ...
— Lectures and Essays • Goldwin Smith
... question of simple arithmetic. Unless we check the excessive growth of Federal expenditures or impose on ourselves matching increases in taxes, we will continue to run huge inflationary deficits in ...
— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various
... as a set-off against the sarcasms of Pasquin on priestcraft. They depict, with a great deal of knowledge and discrimination, the pattern priest as Fielding conceived him. To these may be linked an earlier picture, taken from life, of a country parson who, in his simple and dignified surroundings, even more closely resembles the Vicar of Wakefield than Mr. Abraham Adams. Some of the more general articles contain happy passages. In one there is an admirable parody of the Norman-French jargon, which in those days added superfluous obscurity ...
— Fielding - (English Men of Letters Series) • Austin Dobson
... him admired him. He would tell with simple frankness how, after distinguishing himself at Antietam, he chose to remain a private rather than take the lieutenancy that was placed within his reach. ...
— Tales From Bohemia • Robert Neilson Stephens
... the result. These people, although far superior to the tribes on the north of the Nile in general intelligence, had no idea of a Supreme Being, nor any object of worship, their faith resting upon a simple belief in magic like that of the ...
— The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile • Sir Samuel White Baker


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