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English - Etymology
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 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.
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English - Pronunciation
* IPA(key): /ˈsɪmpəl/
* Rhymes: -ɪmpəl
* Hyphenation: sim‧ple
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IPA(key): /ˈsɪmpəl/
- Rhymes: -ɪmpəl
- Hyphenation: sim‧ple
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English - Adjective
SIMPLE (_comparative_ SIMPLER, _superlative_ SIMPLEST)
* Uncomplicated; taken by itself, with nothing added.
* 1915, Emerson Hough, _The Purchase Price_, chapterI:
“[…] 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? […]”
* 2001, Sydney I. Landau, _Dictionaries: The Art and Craft of Lexicography_, Cambridge University Press (ISBN 0-521-78512-X), page 167,
There is no SIMPLE way to define precisely a complex arrangement of parts, however homely the object may appear to be.
* Without ornamentation; plain.
* Free from duplicity; guileless, innocent, straightforward.
* John Marston (ca.1576-1634)
Full many fine men go upon my score, as SIMPLE as I stand here, and I trust them.
* Lord Byron (1788-1824)
Must thou trust Tradition's SIMPLE tongue?
* Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
To be SIMPLE is to be great.
* Undistinguished in social condition; of no special rank.
* (now rare) Trivial; insignificant.
* 1485, Thomas Malory, _Le Morte d'Arthur_, Book X:
‘That was a SYMPLE cause,’ seyde Sir Trystram, ‘for to sle a good knyght for seyynge well by his maystir.’
* (now colloquial) Feeble-minded; foolish.
* (heading, technical) Structurally uncomplicated.
* (chemistry) Consisting of one single substance; uncompounded.
* (mathematics) Of a group: having no normal subgroup.
* (botany) Not compound, but possibly lobed.
* (zoology) Consisting of a single individual or zooid; not compound.
_a SIMPLE ascidian_
* (mineralogy) Homogenous.
* (obsolete) Mere; not other than; being only.
* William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
A medicine […] whose SIMPLE touch / Is powerful to araise King Pepin.
SYNONYMS
* (consisting of a single part or aspect): onefold
* (having few parts or features): plain
* See also Wikisaurus:easy
ANTONYMS
* (having few parts or features): complex, compound, complicated
* (uncomplicated): subtle
DERIVED TERMS
TRANSLATIONS
simple (comparative simpler, superlative simplest)
- Uncomplicated; taken by itself, with nothing added.
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1915, Emerson Hough, The Purchase Price, chapterI:
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“[…] 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? […]”
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2001, Sydney I. Landau, Dictionaries: The Art and Craft of Lexicography, Cambridge University
Press (ISBN 0-521-78512-X), page 167,
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There is no simple way to define precisely
a complex arrangement of parts, however homely the object may appear to be.
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Without ornamentation; plain.
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Free from duplicity; guileless, innocent, straightforward.
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Undistinguished in social condition; of no
special rank.
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(now rare) Trivial; insignificant.
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(now colloquial) Feeble-minded; foolish.
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(heading, technical) Structurally uncomplicated.
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(chemistry) Consisting of one single substance; uncompounded.
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(mathematics) Of a group: having no normal subgroup.
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(botany) Not compound, but possibly lobed.
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(zoology) Consisting of a single individual
or zooid; not compound.
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a simple ascidian
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(mineralogy) Homogenous.
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(obsolete) Mere; not other than; being only.
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التي في فئةENGLISH - VERB
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SIMPLE (_third-person singular simple present_ SIMPLES, _present participle_ SIMPLING, _simple past and past participle_ SIMPLED)
* (transitive, intransitive, archaic) To gather simples, ie, medicinal herbs.
DERIVED TERMS
* simpler
* simplist
* simplify
simple (third-person
singular simple present simples, present participle simpling, simple past and past participle simpled)
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(transitive, intransitive, archaic) To gather simples, ie, medicinal herbs.
التي في فئةENGLISH - ANAGRAMS
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English - Anagrams
* impels
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Catalan - Pronunciation
* (Eastern Catalan) IPA(key): [ˈsimpɫə]
* (Western Catalan) IPA(key): [ˈsimpɫe]
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التي في فئةESPERANTO - ETYMOLOGY
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Esperanto - Etymology
_simpl-_ + _-e_
simpl- + -e
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Esperanto - Pronunciation
* IPA(key): /ˈsimple/
* Hyphenation: sim‧ple
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IPA(key): /ˈsimple/
- Hyphenation: sim‧ple
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French - Pronunciation
* IPA(key): /sɛ̃pl/
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التي في فئةFRENCH - NOUN
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French - Noun
SIMPLE m (_plural_ SIMPLES)
* one-way ticket
* (baseball) single
RELATED TERMS
* aller simple
* simplement
* simplicité
* simplifier
simple m (plural simples)
- one-way ticket
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(baseball) single
التي في فئةFRENCH - ANAGRAMS
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French - Anagrams
* emplis
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French - External Links
* “simple” in _le Trésor de la langue française informatisé_ (_The Digitized Treasury of the French Language_).
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التي في فئةOLD FRENCH - ALTERNATIVE FORMS
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Old French - Alternative Forms
* sinple
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Romanian - Pronunciation
* IPA(key): [ˈsim.ple]
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