Dictionary Entry
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
- 1adjective
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.
- 2adjective
Plain; unadorned; as, simple dress.
- 3adjective
Mere; not other than; being only.
- 4adjective
Not given to artifice, stratagem, or duplicity; undesigning; sincere; true.
- 5adjective
Artless in manner; unaffected; unconstrained; natural; inartificial;; straightforward.
- 6adjective
Direct; clear; intelligible; not abstruse or enigmatical; as, a simple statement; simple language.
- 7adjective
Weak in intellect; not wise or sagacious; of but moderate understanding or attainments; hence, foolish; silly.
- 8adjective
Not luxurious; without much variety; plain; as, a simple diet; a simple way of living.
- 9adjective
Humble; lowly; undistinguished.
- 10adjective
Without subdivisions; entire; as, a simple stem; a simple leaf.
- 11adjective
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.
- 12adjective
Homogenous.
- 13adjective
Consisting of a single individual or zooid; as, a simple ascidian; -- opposed to compound.
- 14adjective
Something not mixed or compounded.
- 15adjective
A medicinal plant; -- so called because each vegetable was supposed to possess its particular virtue, and therefore to constitute a simple remedy.
- 16adjective
A drawloom.
- 17adjective
A part of the apparatus for raising the heddles of a drawloom.
- 18adjective
A feast which is not a double or a semidouble.
- 19intransitive verb
To gather simples, or medicinal plants.
- 20noun
a person lacking intelligence or common sense
Synonyms
- 21noun
any herbaceous plant having medicinal properties
- 22adjective
easy and not involved or complicated
"an elementary problem in statistics"
"elementary, my dear Watson"
- 23adjective
apart from anything else; without additions or modifications
"only the bare facts"
"shocked by the mere idea"
- 24adjective
unornamented
"a simple country schoolhouse"
"her black dress--simple to austerity"
- 25adjective
lacking mental capacity and subtlety
- 26adjective
(botany) of leaf shapes; of leaves having no divisions or subdivisions
Synonyms
- 27adjective
having few parts; not complex or complicated or involved
"a simple problem"
"simple mechanisms"
- 28adjective
exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity
"childlike trust"
"dewy-eyed innocence"
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