📖 Определения и значения для слова simple
📒 not complicated; easy to understand or do
- a simple solution/explanation/question/task/example
- simple for somebody/something You will soon see that what once seemed impossible is now simple for you.
- something is simple to do This machine is very simple to use.
📒 basic or plain without anything extra or unnecessary
- simple but elegant clothes
- We had a simple meal of soup and bread.
- The accommodation is simple but spacious.
📒 used before a noun to emphasize that it is exactly that and nothing else
- We cannot ignore the simple fact that the country cannot sustain the current level of economic growth.
- The simple truth is that we just can't afford it.
- It's a simple matter of giving them enough to eat.
📒 consisting of only a few parts; not complicated in structure
- simple forms of life, for example amoebas
- a simple machine
- (grammar) a simple sentence (= one with only one verb)
📒 ordinary; not special
- I'm a simple country girl.
- The poem describes simple young soldiers in the Civil War.
📒 slow to learn; having a learning disability
📒 used to describe the present or past tense of a verb that is formed without using an auxiliary verb, as in She loves him (= the simple present tense) or He arrived late (= the simple past tense)
📒 used after the noun that it refers to in order to emphasize that there is nothing but the thing you have just mentioned involved in something
- It's laziness, pure and simple.
- The man wants revenge, pure and simple.