simple as kiss your hand
Very easy.
simple
/ˈsɪm.pəl/
adj 5noun 5verb 1
Collocations
6(adj.)
VERBS
appear, be, look, prove, seem, sound
keep sth, make sth
My teacher always told me to keep my essays simple and avoid using complicated words.
find sth
Most students find basic arithmetic simple once they understand the key concepts.
ADV
extremely, quite, very
The recipe is extremely simple, so even young children can help prepare dinner.
fairly, pretty, rather, relatively
deceptively
The math problem looked deceptively simple, but it took me an hour to solve it.
Definitions
adj
1
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?
Primitive people, colossally ignorant of the cause of disease and of curative processes, attributed to supernatural agencies any causes and effects for which their simple minds could give no natural explanations.
2
Easy; not difficult.
There is no simple way to define precisely a complex arrangement of parts, however homely the object may appear to be.
Point-free coding is a byproduct of adopting declarative programming. You can use point-free coding without FP. But because point-free is all about improving the readability of code at a glance and making it simpler to parse, having the guarantees imposed by FP furthers this cause.
3
Without ornamentation; plain.
4
Free from duplicity; guileless, innocent, straightforward.
Full many fine men go upon my score, as simple as I stand here, and I trust them.
Must thou trust Tradition's simple tongue?
5
Undistinguished in social condition; of no special rank.
Garak: Who would want to kill me, a simple tailor? / Odo: A simple tailor? A simple tailor who used to be an agent of the Obsidian Order!
noun
1
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.
I know there are some simples, which in operation are moistening and some drying.
2
A physician.
3
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.
4
Something not mixed or compounded.
But it is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry contemplation of my travels
5
A drawloom.
verb
1
To gather simples, i.e. medicinal herbs.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
noun — a person lacking intelligence or common sense
- simpleton
adjective — easy and not involved or complicated
- elementary
- uncomplicated
- unproblematic
adjective — lacking mental capacity and subtlety
- dim-witted
- simple-minded
adjective — (botany) of leaf shapes
- unsubdivided
Idioms & Phrases
fee simple absolute in possession
The unqualified and unrestricted ownership of an estate in land; freehold tenure.
Example Bank
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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?
Wiktionary02
Primitive people, colossally ignorant of the cause of disease and of curative processes, attributed to supernatural agencies any causes and effects for which their simple minds could give no natural e
Wiktionary03
The simplest soliton is the domain wall with co-dimension one, and the next simplest is the vortex with co-dimension two, whereas the co-dimension three (four) soliton is called monopole (instanton).
Wiktionary04
Dere is some simples in my closet, dat I vill not for the varld I shall leave behind.
Wiktionary05
I know there are some simples, which in operation are moistening and some drying.
Wiktionary06
[W]hat Virtue there is in this Remedy lies in the naked Simple it ſelf, as it comes over from the Indies, and in the Choice of that which is leaſt dried, or periſhed by the Voyage.
WiktionaryUsage Notes
i Register
In some senses, simple is marked as obsolete, archaic. Watch for register when choosing this word.
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