Definition of "simple" in 英语

adjective

1. Uncomplicated; lacking complexity; taken by itself, with nothing added.

2. Easy; not difficult.

3. Without ornamentation; plain.

4. Free from duplicity; guileless, innocent, straightforward.

5. Undistinguished in social condition; of no special rank.

6. (archaic) Trivial; insignificant.

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

8. (heading, technical) Structurally uncomplicated.

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

noun

1. (pharmacology) A herbal preparation made from one plant, as opposed to something made from more than one plant.

2. (obsolete, by extension) A physician.

3. (logic) A simple or atomic proposition.

4. (obsolete) Something not mixed or compounded.

5. (weaving) A drawloom.

6. (weaving) Part of the apparatus for raising the heddles of a drawloom.

7. (Roman Catholicism) A feast which is not a double or a semidouble.

verb

1. (transitive, intransitive, archaic) To gather simples, i.e. medicinal herbs.