simplest

adjclear, understandable; easy

adjuncluttered, natural
adjchildlike, innocent
adjfeeble-minded; not intelligent

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adj clear, understandable; easy

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Word Origin & History

c.1200, "free from duplicity, upright, guileless; blameless, innocently harmless," also "ignorant, uneducated; unsophisticated; simple-minded, foolish," from Old French simple (12c.) "plain, decent; friendly, sweet; naive, foolish, stupid," hence "wretched, miserable," from Latin simplus, variant of simplex "simple, uncompounded," literally "onefold" (see simplex). Sense of "free from pride, humble, meek" is mid-13c. As "consisting of only one substance or ingredient" (opposite of composite or compounded) it dates from late 14c.; as "easily done" (opposite of complicated) it dates from late 15c.

From mid-14c. as "unqualified; mere; sheer;" also "clear, straightforward; easily understood." From late 14c. as "single, individual; whole." From late 14c. of clothing, etc., "modest, plain, unadorned," and of food, "plain, not sumptuous." In medicine, of fractures, etc., "lacking complications," late 14c. As a law term, "lacking additional legal stipulations, unlimited," from mid-14c.

In Middle English with wider senses than recently, e.g. "inadequate, insufficient; weak, feeble; mere; few; sad, downcast; mournful; of little value; low in price; impoverished, destitute;" of hair, "straight, not curly." As noun, "an innocent or a guileless person; a humble or modest person" (late 14c.), also "an uncompounded substance." From c.1500 as "ignorant people."

Example Sentences for simplest

It was the simplest hymn, Hester thought, she had ever heard.

The reply was of the simplest, and it was the end of argument.

The simplest child he would no more offend than the most powerful man.

We find that the deepest thoughts can be expressed in the simplest language.

The discipline is of the simplest, yet, I was assured, quite efficacious.

The questions which had to be dealt with were of the simplest nature.

Even the simplest of them—to do good to other people—is an instant and infallible specific.

Like all great inventions, the top was of the simplest construction.

The simplest way of relief is to shrug one's shoulders and let the weight go.

Broiling is the simplest of all forms of cooking, and is essentially English.

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elementary

rudimental

rudimentary

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elementary