simpleadj/ˈsɪm.pəl/

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  Uncomplicated; lacking complexity; taken by itself, with nothing added.

  • 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?
  • Primitive people, colossally ignorant of the cause of disease and of curative processes, attributed to supernatural agencies any causes and effects for which their simple minds could give no natural explanations.
• 2

  Easy; not difficult.

  • There is no simple way to define precisely a complex arrangement of parts, however homely the object may appear to be.
  • Point-free coding is a byproduct of adopting declarative programming. You can use point-free coding without FP. But because point-free is all about improving the readability of code at a glance and making it simpler to parse, having the guarantees imposed by FP furthers this cause.
• 3

  Without ornamentation; plain.

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  Free from duplicity; guileless, innocent, straightforward.

  • Full many fine men go upon my score, as simple as I stand here, and I trust them.
  • Must thou trust Tradition's simple tongue?
• 5

  Undistinguished in social condition; of no special rank.

  • Garak: Who would want to kill me, a simple tailor? / Odo: A simple tailor? A simple tailor who used to be an agent of the Obsidian Order!
• 6

  archaicTrivial; insignificant.

  • ‘That was a symple cause,’ seyde Sir Trystram, ‘for to sle a good knyght for seyynge well by his maystir.’
• 7

  Feeble-minded; foolish.

• 8

  chemistryengineeringheadingStructurally uncomplicated.

simplenoun/ˈsɪm.pəl/

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

  • 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.
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  obsoleteA physician.

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  human-scienceslogicmathematicsA simple or atomic proposition.

  • 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.
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  obsoleteSomething not mixed or compounded.

  • But it is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry contemplation of my travels
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  businessmanufacturingtextilesA drawloom.

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  businessmanufacturingtextilesPart of the apparatus for raising the heddles of a drawloom.

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  CatholicismChristianityRoman-CatholicismA feast which is not a double or a semidouble.

simpleverb/ˈsɪm.pəl/

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  archaicTo gather simples, i.e. medicinal herbs.