simple > define
noun
- Any herbaceous plant having medicinal properties.
- A person lacking intelligence or common sense.
- synonyms: simpleton
adjective
- Having few parts; not complex or complicated or involved.
- usage: "a simple problem"; "simple mechanisms"; "a simple design"; "a simple substance"
- Easy and not involved or complicated.
- usage: "an elementary problem in statistics"; "elementary, my dear Watson"; "a simple game"; "found an uncomplicated solution to the problem"
- synonyms: elementary, uncomplicated, unproblematic
- Apart from anything else; without additions or modifications.
- usage: "only the bare facts"; "shocked by the mere idea"; "the simple passage of time was enough"; "the simple truth"
- Exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity.
- usage: "childlike trust"; "dewy-eyed innocence"; "listened in round-eyed wonder"
- synonyms: childlike, wide-eyed, round-eyed, dewy-eyed
- Lacking mental capacity and subtlety.
- synonyms: dim-witted, simple-minded
- Botany) of leaf shapes; of leaves having no divisions or subdivisions.
- synonyms: unsubdivided
- Unornamented.
- usage: "a simple country schoolhouse"; "her black dress-simple to austerity"
by WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (a.) Homogenous.
- (a.) A feast which is not a double or a semidouble.
- (a.) A medicinal plant; -- so called because each vegetable was supposed to possess its particular virtue, and therefore to constitute a simple remedy.
- (a.) Without subdivisions; entire; as, a simple stem; a simple leaf.
- (a.) Not capable of being decomposed into anything more simple or ultimate by any means at present known; elementary; thus, atoms are regarded as simple bodies. Cf. Ultimate, a.
- (a.) Plain; unadorned; as, simple dress.
- (a.) A part of the apparatus for raising the heddles of a drawloom.
- (a.) Mere; not other than; being only.
- (a.) Consisting of a single individual or zooid; as, a simple ascidian; -- opposed to compound.
- (a.) Artless in manner; unaffected; unconstrained; natural; inartificial;; straightforward.
- (a.) Not luxurious; without much variety; plain; as, a simple diet; a simple way of living.
- (a.) Weak in intellect; not wise or sagacious; of but moderate understanding or attainments; hence, foolish; silly.
- (a.) A drawloom.
- (a.) Single; not complex; not infolded or entangled; uncombined; not compounded; not blended with something else; not complicated; as, a simple substance; a simple idea; a simple sound; a simple machine; a simple problem; simple tasks.
- (a.) Something not mixed or compounded.
- (a.) Direct; clear; intelligible; not abstruse or enigmatical; as, a simple statement; simple language.
- (a.) Not given to artifice, stratagem or duplicity; undesigning; sincere; true.
- (a.) Humble; lowly; undistinguished.
- (v.i.) To gather simples or medicinal plants.
by Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Simple is a masculine given name
- Name Meaning: 'The Merry Wives of Windsor' Servant to Slender
- Name Origin: Shakespearean
Savings Incentive Match Plan for Employees. A retirement plan that allows employees of businesses with small 100 or fewer employees and self-employed persons to make contributions to an IRA.' SIMPLE' plan contributions cannot exceed $6, 000 per year, and the contributions must be a percentage of the participant's earnings that is specified by the participant.