simple


Definition: Meaning of, simple in English to English dictionary.

Pronunciation: / ˈsɪmp(ə)l /

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simple simpler simplest
  1. easy not difficult or complicated to do or understand
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  2. plain made in a plain style, without a lot of decoration or unnecessary things added
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  3. only [usually before noun] used to emphasize that only one thing is involved
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  4. not having many parts made or built of only a few parts, and not having a complicated structure
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  5. ordinary honest and ordinary and not special in any way
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  6. grammar technical simple tenses are not formed with an AUXILIARY such as 'have' or 'be'
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  7. the simple life life without too many possessions or modern machines, usually in the countryside
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  8. stupid [not before noun] someone who is simple is not very intelligent
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simple used in phrases

  • Simple Simon
    1. a stupid person who believes everything he is told, from the name of a stupid young man in a NURSERY RHYME (= an old song or poem for young children) . The rhyme goes: Simple Simon met a pieman/Going to the fair;/Says Simple Simon to the pieman/"Let me taste your ware."
  • fee simple (noun)
    1. a fee without limitation to any class of heirs; they can sell it or give it away
  • simple absence (noun)
    1. an absence seizure without other complications; followed by 3-per-sec brainwave spikes
  • simple closed curve (noun)
    1. a closed curve that does not intersect itself
  • simple eye (noun)
    1. an eye having a single lens
  • simple fraction (noun)
    1. the quotient of two integers
  • simple fracture (noun)
    1. an injury in which a bone in your body is broken but does not cut through the flesh that surrounds it
  • simple fruit (noun)
    1. an indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp: e.g. grape; tomato; cranberry
  • simple harmonic motion (noun)
    1. periodic motion in which the restoring force is proportional to the displacement
  • simple interest (noun)
    1. INTEREST that is calculated on the sum of money that you first INVEST ed, and does not include the INTEREST it has already earned
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