noun
- Any herbaceous plant having medicinal properties.
- A person lacking intelligence or common sense.
- synonyms: simpleton
adjective
- Having few parts; not complex or complicated or involved.
- usage: "a simple problem"; "simple mechanisms"; "a simple design"; "a simple substance"
- Easy and not involved or complicated.
- usage: "an elementary problem in statistics"; "elementary, my dear Watson"; "a simple game"; "found an uncomplicated solution to the problem"
- synonyms: elementary, uncomplicated, unproblematic
- Apart from anything else; without additions or modifications.
- usage: "only the bare facts"; "shocked by the mere idea"; "the simple passage of time was enough"; "the simple truth"
- Exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity.
- usage: "childlike trust"; "dewy-eyed innocence"; "listened in round-eyed wonder"
- synonyms: childlike, wide-eyed, round-eyed, dewy-eyed
- Lacking mental capacity and subtlety.
- synonyms: dim-witted, simple-minded
- Botany) of leaf shapes; of leaves having no divisions or subdivisions.
- synonyms: unsubdivided
- Unornamented.
- usage: "a simple country schoolhouse"; "her black dress-simple to austerity"
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