simpler
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English
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[edit]- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈsɪmplɚ/, /ˈsɪmpl̩ɚ/[1]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈsɪmplə/, /ˈsɪmpl̩ə/
Adjective
[edit]simpler
- comparative form of simple: more simple, less complicated or challenging.
- 1951 April, D. S. Barrie, “British Railways: A Survey, 1948-1950”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 224:
- 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.
Noun
[edit]simpler (plural simplers)
- (archaic) One who grows or gathers simples (medicinal herbs).
- 1781, Daines Barrington, Miscellanies, Essay VII, On the Linnæan System, page 273:
- 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.
- 1781, Daines Barrington, Miscellanies, Essay VII, On the Linnæan System, page 273:
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[edit]- ^ “simpler”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
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