simple
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (archaic) Trivial; insignificant.Examples: "‘That was a symple cause,’ seyde Sir Trystram, ‘for to sle a good knyght for seyynge well by his maystir.’"Synonyms: inconsequential, base, contemptible, foolish, for the birds, futile, frivolous, idleAntonyms: significant, unimportant, ignorable, inconsequential, insignificant, minor, negligible, trivialarchaic
2. (now colloquial, euphemistic) Feeble-minded; foolish.Synonyms: dim-witted, unwise, asinine, balmy, barmy, bedaft, loony, daftAntonyms: astute, quick-witted, foolish, unwisecolloquialeuphemistic
3. (heading, technical) Structurally uncomplicated.Synonyms: basic, plain, uncomplex, uncomplicatedAntonyms: complex, compound, complicated
4. (heading, technical) Structurally uncomplicated.Synonyms: basic, plain, uncomplex, uncomplicatedAntonyms: complex, compound, complicatedbroadly
5. (heading, technical) Structurally uncomplicated.Synonyms: basic, plain, uncomplex, uncomplicatedAntonyms: complex, compound, complicatedbroadly
6. (heading, technical) Structurally uncomplicated.Synonyms: basic, plain, uncomplex, uncomplicatedAntonyms: complex, compound, complicatedbroadly
noun (English)
1. (pharmacology) A herbal preparation made from one plant, as opposed to something made from more than one plant.Examples: "Dere is some simples in my closet, dat I vill not for the varld I shall leave behind."; "I know there are some simples, which in operation are moistening and some drying."; "[W]hat Virtue there is in this Remedy lies in the naked Simple it ſelf, as it comes over from the Indies, and in the Choice of that which is leaſt dried, or periſhed by the Voyage."
2. (obsolete, by extension) A physician.broadlyobsolete
3. (logic) A simple or atomic proposition.Examples: "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."
4. (obsolete) Something not mixed or compounded.Examples: "But it is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry contemplation of my travels"obsolete
5. (weaving) A drawloom.
6. (weaving) Part of the apparatus for raising the heddles of a drawloom.
verb (English)
1. (transitive, intransitive, archaic) To gather simples, i.e. medicinal herbs.archaicintransitivetransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary