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UK
/sˈɪmpəl/
]
[ US /ˈsɪmpəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈsɪmpəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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unornamented
a simple country schoolhouse
her black dress--simple to austerity -
having few parts; not complex or complicated or involved
a simple substance
simple mechanisms
a simple design
a simple problem - (botany) of leaf shapes; of leaves having no divisions or subdivisions
- lacking mental capacity and subtlety
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easy and not involved or complicated
a simple game
found an uncomplicated solution to the problem
elementary, my dear Watson
an elementary problem in statistics -
apart from anything else; without additions or modifications
only the bare facts
the simple passage of time was enough
shocked by the mere idea
the simple truth -
exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity
dewy-eyed innocence
listened in round-eyed wonder
childlike trust
NOUN
- a person lacking intelligence or common sense
- any herbaceous plant having medicinal properties
How To Use simple In A Sentence
- It's a bit unexpected not to include any measures of syntactic complexity - even something as simple as mean sentence length.
- I'd live the transient and ephemeral existence of a backpacker for a week, an existence of freedom and simple pleasures.
- She pulled the black scrunchie out of her long glossy red-gold hair, the silky strands having been confined in a simple low, sleek ponytail.
- A monk will be hired to chant some Buddhist scriptures and perform a simple ceremony at the morgue instead of at a funeral parlor.
- 't think that when people grow up, they will become morebroad-minded and can accept everything. Conversely, I think it's aselecting process, knowing what's the most important and what's theleast. And then be a simple man.
- So, in the next article in this series we'll explore Vim's simple plug-in architecture, which allows you to factor out parts of your .vimrc and isolate them in separate modules.
- It was a simple rectangle of crudely mounded basalt rocks, a distinctive arrangement reminiscent of the way Samoans and other Polynesians marked their dead in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
- For those who don't know about Shannon, he was the father of information theory, which in its simplest form means he made possible the leap from telephones and telegraphs to computers.
- The real issue, they predict, will boil down to fairness and simple human dignity.
- The side dish the day I visited was a simple mixed olive salad, a mélange of black and green olives with spicy oil.