simpler

CEFRA1

/ˈsɪm.pəl.ə/

adjective

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    adjective

    Easier to understand or do.

  2. 02

    adjective

    Extra detail

    A surname from German.

Examples

  • These creatures evolved from simpler organisms like jellyfish.

  • Will you please put that in simpler words?

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
4
Parts of speech
1
Citations
2
Synonyms
1

Also pronounced

  • /ˈsɪm.plə/

Deep Dive

adjective

Extra meanings

  1. One who grows or gathers simples (medicinal herbs).

  2. comparative form of simple: more simple, less complicated or challenging.

More examples

In context

  • One of the great pleasures in botany is, to produce a rather uncommon plant to those who know it to be curious; but the English botanist will not have much satisfaction in shewing it to a simpler, who is not acquainted with it under the name given by Gerard o...

  • One of the great pleasures in botany is, to produce a rather uncommon plant to those who know it to be curious; but the English botanist will not have much satisfaction in shewing it to a simpler, who is not acquainted with it under the name given by Gerard or Ray.

  • … 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.

Synonyms

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Origin

adjective

Probably an altered form of German Simperl or Semperl.