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▸ adjective: Easy; not difficult.
▸ adjective: Without ornamentation; plain.
▸ adjective: Free from duplicity; guileless, innocent, straightforward.
▸ adjective: Undistinguished in social condition; of no special rank.
▸ adjective: (archaic) Trivial; insignificant.
▸ adjective: (now colloquial, euphemistic) Feeble-minded; foolish.
▸ adjective: (heading, technical) Structurally uncomplicated.
▸ adjective: (chemistry, pharmacology) Consisting of one single substance; uncompounded.
▸ adjective: (mathematics) Of a group: having no normal subgroup.
▸ adjective: (botany) Not compound, but possibly lobed.
▸ adjective: Using steam only once in its cylinders, in contrast to a compound engine, where steam is used more than once in high-pressure and low-pressure cylinders. (of a steam engine)
▸ adjective: (zoology) Consisting of a single individual or zooid; not compound.
▸ adjective: (mineralogy) Homogenous.
▸ adjective: (obsolete) Mere; not other than; being only.
▸ noun: (pharmacology) A herbal preparation made from one plant, as opposed to something made from more than one plant.
▸ noun: (obsolete, by extension) A physician.
▸ noun: (logic) A simple or atomic proposition.
▸ noun: (obsolete) Something not mixed or compounded.
▸ noun: (weaving) A drawloom.
▸ noun: (weaving) Part of the apparatus for raising the heddles of a drawloom.
▸ noun: (Roman Catholicism) A feast which is not a double or a semidouble.
▸ verb: (transitive, intransitive, archaic) To gather simples, i.e. medicinal herbs.
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naive,
childlike,
simple-minded,
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