simple.html - See: PURE AND SIMPLE.

simple.html - adj. & n.
--adj.

1 easily understood or done; presenting no difficulty (a simple explanation; a simple task).
2 not complicated or elaborate; without luxury or sophistication.
3 not compound; consisting of or involving only one element or operation etc.
4 absolute, unqualified, straightforward (the simple truth; a simple majority).
5 foolish or ignorant; gullible, feeble-minded (am not so simple as to agree to that).
6 plain in appearance or manner; unsophisticated, ingenuous, artless.
7 of low rank; humble, insignificant (simple people).
8 Bot. a consisting of one part. b (of fruit) formed from one pistil.

--n.

archaic 1 a herb used medicinally.
2 a medicine made from it.

simple eye an eye of an insect, having only one lens. simple fracture a fracture of the bone only, without a skin wound. simple harmonic motion see HARMONIC . simple interest interest payable on a capital sum only (cf. compound interest (see COMPOUND)). simple interval Mus. an interval of one octave or less. simple machine any of the basic mechanical devices for applying a force (e.g. an inclined plane, wedge, or lever). simple sentence a sentence with a single subject and predicate. Simple Simon a foolish person (from the nursery-rhyme character). simple time Mus. a time with two, three, or four beats in a bar.

simpleness n. [ME f. OF f. L simplus]

simple.html - adj.
1 natural, unsophisticated.
2 feeble-minded.

simple-mindedly adv. simple-mindedness n.

simple.html - n.
a foolish, gullible, or halfwitted person. [SIMPLE after surnames f. place-names in -ton]

simple.html - adj. & n.
--adj.

1 simple; not compounded.
2 Computing (of a circuit) allowing transmission of signals in one direction only.

--n.

a simple or uncompounded thing, esp. a word. [L, = single, var. of simplus simple]

simple.html - See: PURE AND SIMPLE.