ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Simpler

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Pronunciation /ˈsɪm.pəl.ə/ · Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Simpler is an adjective meaning comparative form of simple: more simple, less complicated or challenging.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

… 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.
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.
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.

Word Forms

Synonyms for simpler

Depending on context, synonyms include simplist.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include lighter, smoother, streamline, streamlined, leaner, streamlining.

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