Meaning

7 senses

  1. A herbal preparation made from one plant, as opposed to something made from more than one plant.

  2. A simple or atomic proposition.

  3. A drawloom.

  4. Part of the apparatus for raising the heddles of a drawloom.

  5. A feast which is not a double or a semidouble.

  6. (broadly, obsolete)A physician.

  7. (obsolete)Something not mixed or compounded.

More definitions
  • any herbaceous plant having medicinal properties
  • a person lacking intelligence or common sense

Examples

1168 sentences

  1. It is written in simple English.

    Це пишеться простою англійською. — rmdas

    deEs ist in einfachem Englisch geschrieben. — Tamy

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  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

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  3. There is no simple road to success.

    Немає простого шляху до успіху. — brambury

    ruК успеху нет простой дороги. — Hellerick

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  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

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  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

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Translations

2 languages

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

plural: simples
Singularsimple
Pluralsimples

regular

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
similarlyB1similesimmersimplicityC1simplificationB2simplifyB1

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