simple

simple is a 6-letter English word with 28 senses as adjective, intransitive verb, and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 13 · 28 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. 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.
2. adjective. Plain; unadorned; as, simple dress.
3. adjective. Mere; not other than; being only.
4. adjective. Not given to artifice, stratagem, or duplicity; undesigning; sincere; true.
5. adjective. Artless in manner; unaffected; unconstrained; natural; inartificial;; straightforward.
6. adjective. Direct; clear; intelligible; not abstruse or enigmatical; as, a simple statement; simple language.
7. adjective. Weak in intellect; not wise or sagacious; of but moderate understanding or attainments; hence, foolish; silly.
8. adjective. Not luxurious; without much variety; plain; as, a simple diet; a simple way of living.
9. adjective. Humble; lowly; undistinguished.
10. adjective. Without subdivisions; entire; as, a simple stem; a simple leaf.
11. adjective. 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.
12. adjective. Homogenous.
13. adjective. Consisting of a single individual or zooid; as, a simple ascidian; -- opposed to compound.
14. adjective. Something not mixed or compounded.
15. adjective. A medicinal plant; -- so called because each vegetable was supposed to possess its particular virtue, and therefore to constitute a simple remedy.
16. adjective. A drawloom.
17. adjective. A part of the apparatus for raising the heddles of a drawloom.
18. adjective. A feast which is not a double or a semidouble.
19. intransitive verb. To gather simples, or medicinal plants.
20. noun. a person lacking intelligence or common sense

    Synonyms: simpleton

21. noun. any herbaceous plant having medicinal properties
22. adjective. easy and not involved or complicated

    "an elementary problem in statistics"

    "elementary, my dear Watson"

    Synonyms: elementary, uncomplicated, unproblematic

23. adjective. apart from anything else; without additions or modifications

    "only the bare facts"

    "shocked by the mere idea"

    Synonyms: bare, mere

24. adjective. unornamented

    "a simple country schoolhouse"

    "her black dress--simple to austerity"

25. adjective. lacking mental capacity and subtlety
26. adjective. (botany) of leaf shapes; of leaves having no divisions or subdivisions

    Synonyms: unsubdivided

27. adjective. having few parts; not complex or complicated or involved

    "a simple problem"

    "simple mechanisms"

28. adjective. exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity

    "childlike trust"

    "dewy-eyed innocence"

    Synonyms: childlike

Synonyms

simpleton, elementary, uncomplicated, unproblematic, bare, mere, unsubdivided, childlike

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in simple:

impels, mespil

Common word forms

simpled, simpler, simples, simplest, simpling, simpleness

Words from these letters

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