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1. (adjective) Having few parts or features; having no special features.
2. (adjective, colloquial) Feeble-minded.
3. (adjective, mathematics, of a group) Having no normal subgroup.
4. (adjective, mathematics, of a Lie group) Having no connected normal subgroup.
5. (noun, medicine) A preparation made from one plant, as opposed to something made from more than one plant.
6. (noun, logic) A simple or atomic proposition
7. (verb, transitive, intransitive, archaic) To gather simples, ie, medicinal herbs.
8. (Anglo-Norman, Old French, adjective) innocent
9. (Anglo-Norman, Old French, adjective) mere; simple
10. (Anglo-Norman, Old French, adjective) honest; without pretense
11. (Anglo-Norman, Old French, adjective) peasant, pauper (attibutive)
12. (Catalan, adjective) simple (uncomplicated)
13. (Catalan, adjective) single (not divided into parts)
14. (Esperanto, adverb) simply
15. (French, adjective) simple
16. (French, adjective) one-way
17. (French, noun) one-way ticket
18. (French, noun, baseball) single
19. (Galician, adjective) simple
20. (Romanian, adjective) feminine plural nominative form of simplu.
21. (Romanian, adjective) feminine plural accusative form of simplu.
22. (Romanian, adjective) neuter plural nominative form of simplu.
23. (Romanian, adjective) neuter plural accusative form of simplu.
24. (Spanish, adjective) simple
25. (Spanish, adjective) mere, uncomplicated, easy
26. (Spanish, adjective) single
27. (Spanish, adjective) insipid
28. (Spanish, noun) simpleton, fool
29. (Spanish, noun, pharmacology, masculine) simple

< Middle English simple < Old French and French simple < Latin simplex (“‘simple, literally 'onefold', as opposed to duplex, twofold, double’”) < sim- (“‘the same’”) + plicare (“‘to fold’”): see same and ply. Compare single, singular, simultaneous, etc.

• IPA: /ˈsɪmpl/

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  Rhymes: -ɪmpəl

• Hyphenation: sim‧ple

simple (comparative simpler, superlative simplest)

1. Having few parts or features; having no special features.
   • 2001, Sydney I. Landau, Dictionaries: The Art and Craft of Lexicography, Cambridge University Press (→ISBN), page 167,

     There is no simple way to define precisely a complex arrangement of parts, however homely the object may appear to be.

2. (colloquial) Feeble-minded.
3. (mathematics, of a group) Having no normal subgroup.
4. (mathematics, of a Lie group) Having no connected normal subgroup.

• (having few parts or features): plain
• See WikiSaurus:easy

• (having few parts or features): complex, compound, complicated

simple (plural simples)

1. (medicine) A preparation made from one plant, as opposed to something made from more than one plant.
2. (logic) A simple or atomic proposition

to simple (third-person singular simple present simples, present participle simpling, simple past and past participle simpled)

1. (transitive, intransitive, archaic) To gather simples, ie, medicinal herbs.

• simpler
• simplist

• impels

• sinple

Latin simplex

simple m. and f. (plural simples)

1. innocent
2. mere; simple
3. honest; without pretense
4. peasant, pauper (attibutive)

From Latin simplex.

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simple m. and f. (plural simples, obsolete feminine simpla)

1. simple (uncomplicated)
2. single (not divided into parts)

• senzill

• fulla simple (“simple leaf”)
• simplement (“simply”)

• símplex (“simplex”)
• simplicitat (“simplicity”)
• ximple

simpl- + -e

• IPA: /ˈsimple/
• Hyphenation: sim‧ple

simple

1. simply

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• IPA: /sɛ̃pl/, SAMPA: /sE~pl/

simple (epicene, plural simples)

1. simple
2. one-way

   Un billet simple.

   A one-way ticket.

simple m. (plural simples)

1. one-way ticket
2. (baseball) single

• aller simple
• simplement
• simplicité
• simplifier

• emplis

simple m. and f. (plural simples)

1. simple

• sinple

Latin simplex

simple m. and f. (plural simples)

1. innocent
2. mere; simple
3. honest; without pretense
4. peasant, pauper (attibutive)

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simple

1. feminine plural nominative form of simplu.
2. feminine plural accusative form of simplu.
3. neuter plural nominative form of simplu.
4. neuter plural accusative form of simplu.

simple m. and f. (plural simples)

1. simple
2. mere, uncomplicated, easy
3. single
4. insipid

simple m. and f. (plural simples)

1. simpleton, fool
2. (pharmacology, masculine) simple