simple

Meanings

Plural: simples

Noun

• any herbaceous plant having medicinal properties
• a person lacking intelligence or common sense
• A herbal preparation made from one plant, as opposed to something made from more than one plant.
• 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.

Adjective

• having few parts; not complex or complicated or involved
  • "a simple problem"
  • "simple mechanisms"
  • "a simple design"
  • "a simple substance"
• (botany) of leaf shapes; of leaves having no divisions or subdivisions

Adjective Satellite

• easy and not involved or complicated
  • "a simple game"
• apart from anything else; without additions or modifications
  • "the simple passage of time was enough"
  • "the simple truth"
• exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity
• lacking mental capacity and subtlety
• unornamented
  • "a simple country schoolhouse"
  • "her black dress--simple to austerity"

Adj

• Uncomplicated; lacking complexity; taken by itself, with nothing added.
• Easy; not difficult.
• Without ornamentation; plain.
• Free from duplicity; guileless, innocent, straightforward.
• Undistinguished in social condition; of no special rank.
• Trivial; insignificant.
• Feeble-minded; foolish.
• Structurally uncomplicated.
• Consisting of one single substance; uncompounded.
• Structurally uncomplicated.
• Being non-trivial, and admitting no proper non-trivial quotients.
• Being non-trivial, and having no proper non-trivial normal subgroups (equivalently, no proper non-trivial quotient groups).
• Structurally uncomplicated.
• Being non-trivial, and admitting no proper non-trivial quotients.
• Being non-trivial, and having no proper non-trivial submodules (equivalently, no proper non-trivial quotient modules).
• Structurally uncomplicated.
• Being non-trivial, and admitting no proper non-trivial quotients.
• Being non-zero, and having no proper non-zero two-sided ideals (equivalently, no proper non-trivial quotient rings). For commutative rings, this definition coincides with that of a field.
• Structurally uncomplicated.
• Being non-trivial, and admitting no proper non-trivial quotients.
• Containing more than one element, and such that the only congruences on the structure are the diagonal relation (the equivalence relation a≡b⟺a=b) and the universal relation (the equivalence relation such that a≡b for all a,b). Equivalently, containing more than one element and having no proper non-trivial quotient algebras.
• Structurally uncomplicated.
• Being non-trivial, and admitting no proper non-trivial quotients.
• Being non-isomorphic to the terminal object, and such that its only quotient objects (up to isomorphism) are the terminal object and itself.
• Structurally uncomplicated.
• Being non-abelian and having no proper non-zero ideals. (Note that this is non-equivalent to the usual algebra sense; in particular, the abelian Lie algebra of dimension 1 over any given field is non-trivial and has no proper non-zero ideals, but is by convention not considered simple.)
• Structurally uncomplicated.
• Equal to a finite linear combination of indicator functions on measurable sets.
• Structurally uncomplicated.
• Not compound, but possibly lobed.
• Structurally uncomplicated.
• Using steam only once in its cylinders, in contrast to a compound engine, where steam is used more than once in high-pressure and low-pressure cylinders. (of a steam engine)
• Structurally uncomplicated.
• Consisting of a single individual or zooid; not compound.
• Structurally uncomplicated.
• Homogenous.
• Mere; not other than; being only.

Verb

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

Synonyms

addlebrained, addlepated, airheaded, alone, artless, as a duck takes to water, asinine, ass-brained, austere, balmy, bare, bare-bones, bargain, barmy, base, basic, bedaft, bee-brained, beef-witted, beefheaded, beetle-headed, birdbrained, blockheaded, Boeotian, boneheaded, boofheaded, born yesterday, brainless, bubbleheaded, buffle-headed, bullet-headed, cerebrally challenged, chaste, cheap, childish, childlike, chowderheaded, chuckleheaded, clueless, common, contemptible, crackbrained, crackpot, credulous, cretinous, cute, daft, default, dense, dented, derpy, dewy-eyed, dim, dim-bulb, dim-headed, dim-witted, discreet, doltish, dopey, dozy, drowsy, dull, dull-headed, dull-minded, dull-witted, dumb, dumb as a bag of hammers, dumb as a box of rocks, dumb as a doorknob, dumb as a post, dumb as a sack of hammers, dumb as an ox, dumb as dirt, dumber than a box of rocks, dumber than a rock, duncical, dunderheaded, earnest, easy, easy as 123, easy as ABC, easy as cake, easy as falling off a log, easy as pie, easy as rolling off a log, easy peasy, easy peasy Japanesey, easy peasy lemon squeezy, easy-breezy, eath, economy, effortless, elemental, elementary, empty-headed, essential, facile, fair dinkum, fatheaded, fatuous, feeble-minded, flea-brained, fleeceable, foolish, for the birds, forthright, foundational, foursquare, frank, frivolous, fuckwitted, fundamental, futile, fuzzy-headed, fuzzy-minded, gauvison, genuine, goofy, green, guileless, half-brained, half-witted, hammer-headed, honest, idiotic, idiotproof, idle, ignorable, imbecilic, immaterial, immature, inane, incomplex, inconsequential, inconsiderable, indifferent, ingenuous, innocent, inornate, insignificant, insipid, insipient, intellectually challenged, jejune, knuckleheaded, lamebrained, legitimate, light, like a duck takes to water, like a fart in a windstorm, like falling off a log, like riding a bike, like robbing a baby, like shelling peas, like shooting fish in a barrel, like taking candy from a baby, loony, low-born, lowbrow, lumpish, lunkheaded, meager, mean, mentally challenged, mentally retarded, mere, mindless, minor, modest, monosynaptic, mookish, moronic, muttonheaded, naive, natural, negligible, nitwitted, no-frills, nondescript, not the sharpest crayon in the box, not the sharpest knife in the drawer, not the sharpest tool in the shed, nothingburger, numbskulled, oafish, obtuse, on the level, on the up-and-up, onefold, only, ordinary, painless, paltry, Panglossian, Panglossic, peabrained, petty, picayune, picayunish, piddly, piss-easy, pissant, pitiful, plain, plain-sailing, pointless, pratty, pudding-headed, puerile, purblind, pure, quaint, quarter-witted, quiet, restrained, retarded, rockheaded, round-eyed, run-of-the-mill, severe, sharp as a bowling ball, sheep-headed, shit-for-brains, silly, simple, simple as kiss your hand, simple-hearted, simple-minded, simpleton, simplex, sincere, slight, slimline, slow, slow-witted, smooth, smooth-brained, soft, soft in the head, softheaded, sottish, spartan, square, standard, starry-eyed, stolid, straight, straight dinkum, straightforward, stripped, stripped down, stupid, thick, thick as a brick, thick as a plank, thick as a whale omelette, thick as champ, thick as mince, thick as pig shit, thick as two short planks, thick-skulled, thickheaded, thickwitted, tin-pot, trifling, trivial, troublefree, true, trustworthy, truthful, two-bit, unadorned, unaffected, unapprehensive, unchallenging, unclever, uncomplex, uncomplicated, undecked, undemanding, undesigning, undifficult, unembellished, unextravagant, ungarnished, unimportant, unintelligent, uninvolved, unmodified, unornamented, unpretentious, unproblematic, unsage, unsmart, unsophisticated, unsubdivided, untested, untrimmed, unvarnished, unweighty, unwise, unworldly, up front, vacant, vacuous, vain, vanilla, veracious, veridical, very, virgin, vulgar, wet behind the ears, wide-eyed, witless, wooden-headed, wool-headed, woolly-headed, woolly-minded, worthless, wretched, yezzy

Antonyms

astute, challenging, complex, complicated, compound, crafty, easy, eminent, flashy, foolish, gentle, guileful, guileless, gullible, hard, highborn, honest, ignorable, inconsequential, ingenuous, insignificant, minor, naive, negligible, notable, quick-witted, significant, subtle, tinselly, trivial, unadorned, unimportant, unremarkable, unwise, well-born

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