what does simple mean?
SIMPLE as NOUN
- Meaning
- a person lacking intelligence or common sense
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Hypernyms(s) simple is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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- Meaning
- any herbaceous plant having medicinal properties
Hypernyms(s) simple is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
SIMPLE as ADJECTIVE
- Meaning
- easy and not involved or complicated
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- an elementary problem in statistics
- elementary, my dear Watson
- a simple game
- found an uncomplicated solution to the problem
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- Meaning
- not elaborate in style
- unornamented
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- a simple country schoolhouse
- her black dress–simple to austerity
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- Meaning
- lacking mental capacity and devoid of subtlety
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- Meaning
- (botany) of leaf shapes
- of leaves having no divisions or subdivisions
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- Meaning
- having few parts
- not complex or complicated or involved
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- a simple problem
- simple mechanisms
- a simple design
- a simple substance
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Attribute(s)
- Meaning
- exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity
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- childlike trust
- dewy-eyed innocence
- simple courtesy
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