simple
- Adjective. Uncomplicated; taken by itself, with nothing added.
- Adjective. Without ornamentation; plain.
- Adjective. Free from duplicity; guileless, innocent, straightforward.
- Adjective. Undistinguished in social condition; of no special rank.
- Adjective. (context, now) Trivial; insignificant.
- Adjective. (context, now) Feeble-minded; foolish.
- Adjective. (chemistry) Consisting of one single substance; uncompounded.
- Adjective. (mathematics) Of a group: having no normal subgroup.
- Adjective. (botany) Not compound, but possibly lobed.
- Noun. (medicine) A preparation made from one plant, as opposed to something made from more than one plant.
- Noun. (logic) A simple or atomic proposition.
- Verb. (transitive, intransitive) To gather simples, ie, medicinal herbs.
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