Simple

Single; not complex; not infolded or entangled; uncombined; not compounded; not blended with something else; not complicated; as, a simple substance; a simple idea; a simple sound; a simple machine; a simple problem; simple tasks.

Plain; unadorned; as, simple dress.

Mere; not other than; being only.

Not given to artifice, stratagem, or duplicity; undesigning; sincere; true.

Artless in manner; unaffected; unconstrained; natural; inartificial;; straightforward.

Direct; clear; intelligible; not abstruse or enigmatical; as, a simple statement; simple language.

Weak in intellect; not wise or sagacious; of but moderate understanding or attainments; hence, foolish; silly.

Not luxurious; without much variety; plain; as, a simple diet; a simple way of living.

Humble; lowly; undistinguished.

Without subdivisions; entire; as, a simple stem; a simple leaf.

Not capable of being decomposed into anything more simple or ultimate by any means at present known; elementary; thus, atoms are regarded as simple bodies. Cf. Ultimate, a.

Homogenous.

Consisting of a single individual or zooid; as, a simple ascidian; -- opposed to compound.

Something not mixed or compounded.

A medicinal plant; -- so called because each vegetable was supposed to possess its particular virtue, and therefore to constitute a simple remedy.

A drawloom.

A part of the apparatus for raising the heddles of a drawloom.

A feast which is not a double or a semidouble.

To gather simples, or medicinal plants.

(botany) of leaf shapes; of leaves having no divisions or subdivisions

any herbaceous plant having medicinal properties

apart from anything else; without additions or modifications; "only the bare facts"; "shocked by the mere idea"; "the simple passage of time was enough"; "the simple truth"