Uncomplicated; lacking complexity; taken by itself, with nothing added.
We are engaged in a great work, a treatise on our river fortifications, perhaps? But since when did army officers afford the luxury of amanuenses in this simple republic?
A herbal preparation made from one plant, as opposed to something made from more than one plant.
Dere is some simples in my closet, dat I vill not for the varld I shall leave behind.
Inherited from Middle English symple, simple, from Old French and French simple, from Latin simplex (“simple”, literally “onefold”) (as opposed to duplex (“double”, literally “twofold”)), from semel (...
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Easy; not difficult.
There is no simple way to define precisely a complex arrangement of parts, however homely the object may appear to be.
A physician.
A simple or atomic proposition.
Peter van Inwagen, for example, believes that there are no ordinary objects, no chairs or shirts or shoes. Right here there are just some simples — atoms or whatever — arranged shoe-wise.