simple
/ˈsɪm.pəl/ adjective A2- Uncomplicated; lacking complexity; taken by itself, with nothing added.
- Easy; not difficult.
- Without ornamentation; plain.
- Free from duplicity; guileless, innocent, straightforward.
- Undistinguished in social condition; of no special rank.
- Feeble-minded; foolish.
- Consisting of one single substance; uncompounded.
- Being non-trivial, and having no proper non-trivial normal subgroups (equivalently, no proper non-trivial quotient groups).
Comparative simpler · Superlative simplest
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Well, then, see, here is a gentleman who had none of these resources at his disposal—a gentleman, only a simple magistrate, who learned more than you with all your police, and who would have saved my crown, if, like you, he had the power of directing a telegraph.” The look of the minister of police was turned with concentrated spite on Villefort, who bent his head in modest triumph.
And content with simple diet;
“For the simple reason, my dear Mr.
“Well, not to make a mystery of so simple a matter, I was looking for the missing dumb-bell.
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