English Dictionary

simple

/ˈsɪmpəl/

adj

Uncomplicated; taken by itself, with nothing added. / Without ornamentation; plain. / Free from duplicity; guileless, innocent, straightforward. / Undistinguished in social condition; of no special rank.

This is a simple task.

意味（1）

Uncomplicated; taken by itself, with nothing added.

[…] We are engaged in a great work, a treatise on our river fortifications, perhaps? But since when did army officers afford the luxury of amanuenses in this simple republic?[…]

意味（2）

Without ornamentation; plain.

意味（3）

Free from duplicity; guileless, innocent, straightforward.

Full many fine men go upon my score, as simple as I stand here, and I trust them.

意味（4）

Undistinguished in social condition; of no special rank.

意味（5）

(now rare) Trivial; insignificant.

‘That was a symple cause,’ seyde Sir Trystram, ‘for to sle a good knyght for seyynge well by his maystir.’

意味（6）

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

意味（7）

(chemistry, pharmacology) Consisting of one single substance; uncompounded.

意味（8）

(mathematics) Of a group: having no normal subgroup.

意味（9）

(botany) Not compound, but possibly lobed.

意味（10）

(of a steam engine) 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.

Chesapeake & Ohio turned to simple articulateds, for instance, simply because its Alleghany tunnels would not accommodate the low-pressure forward cylinders of larger compounds.

意味（11）

(zoology) Consisting of a single individual or zooid; not compound.

a simple ascidian

意味（12）

(mineralogy) Homogenous.

意味（13）

(obsolete) Mere; not other than; being only.

A medicine[…]whose simple touch / Is powerful to araise King Pepin.