simple

Etymology
From, , from and , from  (as opposed to ), from  +. See same and fold. Compare single, singular, simultaneous, etc.

Partially displaced native English.

Adjective

 * 1) Uncomplicated; lacking complexity; taken by itself, with nothing added.
 * 2) Easy; not difficult.
 * 3) Without ornamentation; plain.
 * 4) Free from duplicity; guileless, innocent, straightforward.
 * 5) Undistinguished in social condition; of no special rank.
 * 6)  Trivial; insignificant.
 * 7)  Feeble-minded; foolish.
 * 8)  Structurally uncomplicated.
 * 9)  Consisting of one single substance; uncompounded.
 * 10)  Of a group: having no normal subgroup.
 * 11)  Not compound, but possibly lobed.
 * 12) Using steam only once in its cylinders, in contrast to a compound engine, where steam is used more than once in high-pressure and low-pressure cylinders.
 * 13)  Consisting of a single individual or zooid; not compound.
 * 14)  Homogenous.
 * 15)  Mere; not other than; being only.
 * 1)  Feeble-minded; foolish.
 * 2)  Structurally uncomplicated.
 * 3)  Consisting of one single substance; uncompounded.
 * 4)  Of a group: having no normal subgroup.
 * 5)  Not compound, but possibly lobed.
 * 6) Using steam only once in its cylinders, in contrast to a compound engine, where steam is used more than once in high-pressure and low-pressure cylinders.
 * 7)  Consisting of a single individual or zooid; not compound.
 * 8)  Homogenous.
 * 9)  Mere; not other than; being only.
 * 1)  Homogenous.
 * 2)  Mere; not other than; being only.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:easy and Thesaurus:bare-bones
 * See also Thesaurus:easy and Thesaurus:bare-bones
 * See also Thesaurus:easy and Thesaurus:bare-bones

Translations

 * Afrikaans: eenvoudig
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: ,
 * Egyptian Arabic: بسيط
 * Hijazi Arabic: بَسِيط,
 * Aragonese:
 * Armenian: ,
 * Assamese: সৰল, সহজ
 * Asturian: ,
 * Aymara:
 * Azerbaijani: ,
 * Bashkir: ябай
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: ,
 * Bengali:
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan: ,
 * Cherokee:
 * Chichewa:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Cornish: sempel
 * Corsican:
 * Czech:, ,
 * Danish:, simpel
 * Dhivehi:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Ewe:
 * Extremaduran:
 * Faroese: einfaldur
 * Finnish: ;, selko-
 * French:
 * Friulian:
 * Galician:, sinxelo
 * Georgian: მარტივი, უბრალო, სადა, იოლი
 * German: ,
 * Gothic: 𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍆𐌰𐌻𐌸𐍃
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἁπλόος, λιτός
 * Gujarati:
 * Haitian Creole: senp
 * Hausa:
 * Hawaiian: maʻalahi
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, easy
 * Hungarian:
 * Hunsrik: eenfach
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Igbo:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Interlingua: simple, simplice
 * Irish: simplí
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Javanese:
 * Kannada:
 * Kapampangan: mayan, masaguli, karaniuan, simpli, marimut
 * Kazakh:, жеңіл
 * Khmer: មិនពិបាក
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: ,
 * Northern Kurdish: ,
 * Kyrgyz: ,
 * Ladino: kolay, sempl, sémpliche
 * Lao: ງ່າຍ
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: prasts, vienkāršs
 * Lithuanian:
 * Luganda:
 * Luxembourgish: einfach, liicht
 * Macedonian: едно́ставен, прост, ле́сен
 * Malay: mudah
 * Malayalam:
 * Maltese: sempliċi
 * Manx: oney, macaintagh, neuchialgagh
 * Maori: waingōhia
 * Marathi: सरळ
 * Mirandese: lhano
 * Mongolian:
 * Nepali: साधा, सरल, साधारण
 * Norman: sîmpl'ye
 * Occitan:
 * Odia: ସରଳ
 * Old English: ānfeald
 * Pashto:
 * Persian:
 * Plautdietsch: eefach
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi: سادہ,
 * Rajasthani:
 * Romanian:, necomplicat
 * Romansch: simpel, sempel
 * Russian: ,
 * Scots:
 * Scottish Gaelic: sìmplidh
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: је̏дноста̄ван, лак
 * Roman: ,
 * Sicilian:, , ,
 * Silesian: ajnfachowy
 * Sindhi:
 * Sinhalese:
 * Slovak: jednoduchý, prostý, ľahký
 * Slovene: preprost, enostaven,
 * Somali:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: ; payak; yano; liso
 * Tajik:
 * Tamil:, , எளிமையான
 * Tatar: гади, беркатлы
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen: sada, ýönekeý
 * Ukrainian:, ле́гкий
 * Urdu:
 * Uyghur:
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Vietnamese:, , ,
 * Volapük:
 * Walloon:
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian:
 * Wolof:
 * Xhosa:
 * Yiddish: פּשוט
 * Yoruba: rọrun
 * Zazaki: gerges
 * Zulu:


 * Armenian: ,
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: simplanima
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: εὐήθης, ἁπλόος
 * Icelandic:
 * Irish: saonta, macánta, gan chealg
 * Manx: meecheeallagh, neuchreeney, giare-cheeayllagh
 * Marathi: भोळा
 * Nepali: सीधा
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: baoth
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: простодушан
 * Roman:
 * Swedish:
 * Yiddish: תּמעוואַטע, הינטערנאויוונדיק, נאַרישעוואַטע

Noun

 * 1)  A herbal preparation made from one plant, as opposed to something made from more than one plant.
 * 2)  A physician.
 * 3)  A simple or atomic proposition.
 * 4)  Something not mixed or compounded.
 * 5)  A drawloom.
 * 6)  Part of the apparatus for raising the heddles of a drawloom.
 * 7)  A feast which is not a double or a semidouble.
 * 1)  Something not mixed or compounded.
 * 2)  A drawloom.
 * 3)  Part of the apparatus for raising the heddles of a drawloom.
 * 4)  A feast which is not a double or a semidouble.
 * 1)  A feast which is not a double or a semidouble.

Translations

 * French:
 * Spanish:

Verb

 * 1)  To gather simples, i.e. medicinal herbs.

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Adjective

 * 1)  uncomplicated

Etymology
.

Adjective

 * 1) simple uncomplicated
 * 2) single not divided into parts
 * 1) single not divided into parts

Etymology
.

Etymology
From.

Adverb

 * 1) simply

Etymology
, borrowed from.

Adjective

 * 1) single (multiplier)
 * 2) one-way
 * 3) mere
 * 1) one-way
 * 2) mere
 * 1) one-way
 * 2) mere
 * 1) mere

Usage notes
The second and third meanings are taken when the adjective is placed after the noun. The fourth meaning is taken when it is located before the noun.

Noun

 * 1) one-way ticket
 * 2)  single

Etymology
. Displaced 🇨🇬.

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Adjective

 * 1) innocent
 * 2) mere;
 * 3) honest; without pretense
 * 4) peasant, pauper (attributive)

Etymology
.

Adjective

 * 1)  mere, ordinary
 * , single
 * 1) simple-minded, stupid
 * 2) insipid, flavorless
 * , single
 * 1) simple-minded, stupid
 * 2) insipid, flavorless
 * 1) simple-minded, stupid
 * 2) insipid, flavorless
 * 1) insipid, flavorless

Usage notes

 * A way to think of the difference between simple and, which both mean "simple" in English, is that the antonym of simple is , whereas the antonym of sencillo is.

Noun

 * 1) simpleton, fool

Etymology
, from.

Adjective

 * 1) ; easy to do
 * 2) common; ordinary
 * 3) easy to understand
 * 4) ; plain
 * 1) common; ordinary
 * 2) easy to understand
 * 3) ; plain
 * 1) ; plain