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Simple

adjective

(compar. simpler; superl. simplest)

1.

Having few parts; not complex or complicated or involved. "Simple mechanisms" , "A simple design" , "A simple substance"

2.

Easy and not involved or complicated. Synonyms: elementary, uncomplicated, unproblematic. "Elementary, my dear Watson" , "A simple game" , "Found an uncomplicated solution to the problem"

3.

Apart from anything else; without additions or modifications. Synonyms: bare, mere. "Shocked by the mere idea" , "The simple passage of time was enough" , "The simple truth"

4.

Exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity. Synonyms: childlike, dewy-eyed, round-eyed, wide-eyed. "Dewy-eyed innocence" , "Listened in round-eyed wonder"

5.

Lacking mental capacity and subtlety. Synonyms: dim-witted, simple-minded.

6.

(botany) of leaf shapes; of leaves having no divisions or subdivisions. Synonym: unsubdivided.

7.

Unornamented. "Her black dress--simple to austerity"

noun

1.

Any herbaceous plant having medicinal properties.

2.

A person lacking intelligence or common sense. Synonym: simpleton.

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... glimpses sometimes both of his bounden duty and of his true interest, but the sinew of iron that is in his neck will not let him perform the one or pursue the other. 'Nothing,' says a penetrating writer, 'is more like firm conviction than simple obstinacy. Plots and parties in the state, and heresies and divisions in the church alike proceed from it.' Let any honest man take that sentence and carry it like a candle down into his own heart and back into his own life, and then with the insight and honesty there learned ...

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