Simple

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