Simpler Meaning
/ˈsɪm.pəl.ə/Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjcomparative form of simple: more simple, less complicated or challenging.
nounOne who grows or gathers simples (medicinal herbs).
Sentence Examples
Will you please put that in simpler words?
These creatures evolved from simpler organisms like jellyfish.
CEFR Practice Quiz
This new method is much ____ than the old one, saving time and effort.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Life used to be ____ before everyone was constantly connected by smartphones.
Word Origin & History
Probably an altered form of German Simperl or Semperl.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"During the first year or so of British Railways, some of the simpler and more obvious inter-regional transfers of outlying sections were effected, such as those of the London, Tilbury & Southend Railway from the London Midland Region to the Eastern Region; the South Wales lines of the former L.M.S.R. to the Western Region; the Carlisle-Silloth branch (an L.N.E.R. legacy of a North British "border raid") to the London Midland, and so on."
— 1951 April, D. S. Barrie, “British Railways: A Survey, 1948-1950”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 224:
"… may with no great impropriety be termed going a simpling; but with this special difference, that your field simpler never picks up a nettle for a marsh-mallow; a mistake which your tour simpler is very liable to."
— 1833, William Hogarth, Anecdotes of William Hogarth: written by himself, page 48:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
This new method is much ____ than the old one, saving time and effort.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Life used to be ____ before everyone was constantly connected by smartphones.