Meaning

20 senses
  1. Uncomplicated; lacking complexity; taken by itself, with nothing added.

  2. Easy; not difficult.

    easy and not involved or complicated

  3. Without ornamentation; plain.

  4. Free from duplicity; guileless, innocent, straightforward.

    einfach, simpel

    просто́йprostój, простоду́шныйprostodúšnyj

  5. Undistinguished in social condition; of no special rank.

  6. (colloquial, euphemistic)Feeble-minded; foolish.

  7. Structurally uncomplicated.

    Consisting of one single substance; uncompounded.

  8. Being non-trivial, and admitting no proper non-trivial quotients.

    (broadly)Being non-trivial, and having no proper non-trivial normal subgroups (equivalently, no proper non-trivial quotient groups).

  9. (broadly)Being non-trivial, and having no proper non-trivial submodules (equivalently, no proper non-trivial quotient modules).

  10. (broadly)Being non-zero, and having no proper non-zero two-sided ideals (equivalently, no proper non-trivial quotient rings). For commutative rings, this definition coincides with that of a field.

  11. (broadly, universal)Containing more than one element, and such that the only congruences on the structure are the diagonal relation (the equivalence relation a≡b⟺a=b) and the universal relation (the equivalence relation such that a≡b for all a,b). Equivalently, containing more than one element and having no proper non-trivial quotient algebras.

  12. (broadly)Being non-isomorphic to the terminal object, and such that its only quotient objects (up to isomorphism) are the terminal object and itself.

Examples

1168 sentences
  1. It is written in simple English.

    Це пишеться простою англійською. — rmdas

    deEs ist in einfachem Englisch geschrieben. — Tamy

  2. I don't think it's that simple.

    Не думаю, що це так просто. — deniko

    ruЯ не думаю, что это так просто. — Olya

    deSo einfach ist das, denke ich, nicht. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  3. There is no simple road to success.

    Немає простого шляху до успіху. — brambury

    ruК успеху нет простой дороги. — Hellerick

  4. I never said it would be simple.

    Я ніколи й не казав, що буде легко. — deniko

    ruА я и не говорил, что будет легко. — marafon

  5. Why don't you ever ask simple questions?

    Чому ти ніколи не ставиш простих запитань? — deniko

    ruПочему ты никогда не задаёшь простых вопросов? — odexed

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
uncomplicated:
Русский
By meaning 2
uncomplicated:
simple-minded:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
uncomplicated:

Origin

Inherited from Middle English symple, from Old French simple, from Latin simplex (“simple”

Inherited from Middle English symple, from Old French simple, from Latin simplex (“simple”, literally “onefold”) (as opposed to duplex (“double”, literally “twofold”)), from semel (“the same”) + plicō (“to fold”). See same and fold. Compare single, singular, simultaneous, etc. Partially displaced native English onefold.

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Forms

simpler/more simple, simplest/most simple
Comparativesimpler / more simple Lesson
Superlativesimplest / most simple Lesson

regular

Synonyms

344 synonyms
Close in meaning

Antonyms

142 antonyms

Word family

59 related words

Collocations

12 patterns
  • as simple as
  • is very simple
  • quite simple
  • simple solution
  • a very simple
  • keep things simple
  • simple question
  • be that simple
  • not as simple
  • a simple solution
  • simple as that
  • written in simple

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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