simpler
/ˈsɪm.pəl.ə/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.83 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
comparative form of simple: more simple, less complicated or challenging.
Example Sentences
- "During the first year or so of British Railways, some of the simpler and more obvious inter-regional transfers of outlying sections were effected, such as those of the London, Tilbury & Southend Railway from the London Midland Region to the Eastern Region; the South Wales lines of the former L.M.S.R. to the Western Region; the Carlisle-Silloth branch (an L.N.E.R. legacy of a North British "border raid") to the London Midland, and so on."
- "One of the great pleasures in botany is, to produce a rather uncommon plant to those who know it to be curious; but the English botanist will not have much satisfaction in shewing it to a simpler, who is not acquainted with it under the name given by Gerard or Ray."
- "… may with no great impropriety be termed going a simpling; but with this special difference, that your field simpler never picks up a nettle for a marsh-mallow; a mistake which your tour simpler is very liable to."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: Simperl
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈsɪm.pəl.ə/
- British English: /ˈsɪm.pəl.ə/