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What does simple mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word simple? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Uncomplicated; taken by itself, with nothing added.
  2. Without ornamentation; plain.
  3. Free from duplicity; guileless, innocent, straightforward.
  4. Undistinguished in social condition; of no special rank.
  5. (now rare) Trivial; insignificant.
  6. (now colloquial) Feeble-minded; foolish.
  7. (heading, technical) Structurally uncomplicated.
    1. (chemistry) Consisting of one single substance; uncompounded.
    2. (mathematics) Of a group: having no normal subgroup.
    3. (botany) Not compound, but possibly lobed.
    4. (zoology) Consisting of a single individual or zooid; not compound.
    5. (mineralogy) Homogenous.
  8. (obsolete) Mere; not other than; being only.
Noun
  1. (medicine) A preparation made from one plant, as opposed to something made from more than one plant.
  2. (obsolete) A term for a physician, derived from the medicinal term above.
  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.
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