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simple

/ˈsɪmpəl/

noun

Meaning

  • A herbal preparation made from one plant, as opposed to something made from more than one plant.

  • (by extension) A physician.

  • A simple or atomic proposition.

  • Something not mixed or compounded.

  • A drawloom.

  • Part of the apparatus for raising the heddles of a drawloom.

  • A feast which is not a double or a semidouble.

verb

Meaning

  • To gather simples, i.e. medicinal herbs.

adjective

Meaning

  • Uncomplicated; taken by itself, with nothing added.

  • Without ornamentation; plain.

  • Free from duplicity; guileless, innocent, straightforward.

  • Undistinguished in social condition; of no special rank.

  • Trivial; insignificant.

  • Feeble-minded; foolish.

  • (heading) Structurally uncomplicated.

  • Mere; not other than; being only.

Synonyms

onefold,
plain