simpleとは

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪmpəl/
• 韻: -ɪmpəl
• ハイフネーション: sim‧ple

形容詞

simple (comparative simpler または more simple, superlative simplest または most simple)

1. Uncomplicated; taken by itself, with nothing added.
   • 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 639762314, page 0088:

     “[…] We are engaged in a great work, a treatise on our river fortifications, perhaps? But since when did army officers afford the luxury of amanuenses in this simple republic? […]”

   • 2001, Sydney I. Landau, Dictionaries: The Art and Craft of Lexicography, Cambridge University Press →ISBN, page 167,

     There is no simple way to define precisely a complex arrangement of parts, however homely the object may appear to be.

2. Without ornamentation; plain.
3. Free from duplicity; guileless, innocent, straightforward.
   • (Can we date this quote?) John Marston

     Full many fine men go upon my score, as simple as I stand here, and I trust them.

   • (Can we date this quote?) Lord Byron

     Must thou trust Tradition's simple tongue?

   • (Can we date this quote?) Ralph Waldo Emerson

     To be simple is to be great.

4. Undistinguished in social condition; of no special rank.
5. (now まれに) Trivial; insignificant.
   • 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur, Book X:

     ‘That was a symple cause,’ seyde Sir Trystram, ‘for to sle a good knyght for seyynge well by his maystir.’

6. (now colloquial) Feeble-minded; foolish.
7. (heading, technical) Structurally uncomplicated.
   1. (chemistry) Consisting of one single substance; uncompounded.
   2. (mathematics) Of a group: having no normal subgroup.
   3. (botany) Not compound, but possibly lobed.
   4. (of a steam engine) 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.
      • 1959, Steam's Finest Hour, edited by David P. Morgan, Kalmbach Publishing Co., page 6:

        Chesapeake & Ohio turned to simple articulateds, for instance, simply because its Alleghany tunnels would not accommodate the low-pressure forward cylinders of larger compounds.

   5. (zoology) Consisting of a single individual or zooid; not compound.

      a simple ascidian

   6. (mineralogy) Homogenous.
8. (obsolete) Mere; not other than; being only.
   • (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare

     A medicine […] whose simple touch / Is powerful to araise King Pepin.

同意語

• (consisting of a single part または aspect): onefold
• (having few parts または features): plain
• See also Thesaurus:easy and Thesaurus:bare-bones

反意語

• (having few parts または features): complex, compound, complicated
• (uncomplicated): subtle

派生語

名詞

simple (複数形 simples)

1. (medicine) A preparation made from one plant, as opposed to something made from more than one plant.
   • 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, chapter 37, in The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:

     I know there are some simples, which in operation are moistening and some drying.

   • (Can we date this quote?) Sir W. Temple

     What virtue is in this remedy lies in the naked simple itself as it comes over from the Indies.

2. (obsolete) A term for a physician, derived from the medicinal term above.
3. (logic) A simple or atomic proposition.
4. (obsolete) Something not mixed or compounded.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Shakespeare

     compounded of many simples

5. (weaving) A drawloom.
6. (weaving) Part of the apparatus for raising the heddles of a drawloom.
7. (Roman Catholicism) A feast which is not a double or a semidouble.

動詞

simple (三人称単数 現在形 simples, 現在分詞 simpling, 過去形および過去分詞形 simpled)

1. (transitive, intransitive, archaic) To gather simples, i.e., medicinal herbs.

派生語

• simpler
• simplist
• simplify

アナグラム

• LEMSIP, impels

Latin

形容詞

simple

1. vocative masculine singular of simplus