Definition/Meaning of simple

• 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…
• English - Noun: simple ( plural simples ) ( medicine ) A preparation made from one plant , as opposed to something made from more than one plant . 1603 , John Florio , translating Michel de Montaigne , Essays , II .37: I know there are some simples , which in operation are moistening and some drying . Sir W . Temple What virtue is in this remedy lies in the naked simple itself as it comes over from the Indies .…
• English - Verb: 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
• 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 .
• English - Pronunciation: IPA (key) : /ˈsɪmpəl/ Rhymes: -ɪmpəl Hyphenation: sim‧ple