simple
/ˈsɪm.pəl/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.08 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Uncomplicated; lacking complexity; taken by itself, with nothing added.
adj
Without ornamentation; plain.
adj
Free from duplicity; guileless, innocent, straightforward.
adj
Undistinguished in social condition; of no special rank.
Example Sentences
- "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?"
- "Primitive people, colossally ignorant of the cause of disease and of curative processes, attributed to supernatural agencies any causes and effects for which their simple minds could give no natural explanations."
- "The simplest soliton is the domain wall with co-dimension one, and the next simplest is the vortex with co-dimension two, whereas the co-dimension three (four) soliton is called monopole (instanton)."
- "The importance of Nowruz is reflected in an elaborate sabzi polo, the herbed rice capped with a crunchy tahdig, the crust formed from lettuce, rice mixed with yogurt or lavash or another thin flatbread. On Wednesday night, I opted for sheveed polo, a simpler and quicker dill rice, but I can’t wait to nail that crunchy tahdig tonight."
- "There is no simple way to define precisely a complex arrangement of parts, however homely the object may appear to be."
- "Point-free coding is a byproduct of adopting declarative programming. You can use point-free coding without FP. But because point-free is all about improving the readability of code at a glance and making it simpler to parse, having the guarantees imposed by FP furthers this cause."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sem- Proto-Indo-European *sm̥-der. Latin sem- Proto-Italic *-plosder. Latin -plus Latin simplusbor. Old French simplebor. Middle English symple English 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.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈsɪm.pəl/
- British English: /ˈsɪm.pəl/
Usage
Inflected Forms
simpler (comparative)
more simple (comparative)
simplest (superlative)
most simple (superlative)
simples (plural)
simples (present, singular)
simpling (participle, present)
simpled (participle, past)
simpled (past)