Legal Definition and Related Resources of Simple

Meaning of Simple

Synonyms of Simple

adjective

artless
bare
basal
basic
clear
crude
downright
elemental
elementary
frank
free of duplicity
fundamental
guileless
homespun
homogeneous
inartificial
incomplex
inconditus
ingenuous
inornate
intelligible
irreducible
mere
natural
open
plain
primary
pure
rudimentary
rustic
simpleminded
simplex
simplified
sincere
sinceras
single
straightforward
unadorned
unadulterated
unaffected
unalloyed
unblended
uncombined
uncomplicated
uncompounded
unconstrained
undecorated
understandable
undesigning
unembellished
uninvolved
unmingled
unmixed
unpretentious
unsophisticatedunstudied
unvarnished
without confusion Associated Concepts: simple assault
simple battery
simple contract
simple larceny
simple will

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Grammar

This term is an adjetive.

Etimology of Simple

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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 from PIE compound *sm-plo-, from root *sem- (1) “one; as one, together with” + *-plo- “-fold.” 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, such as “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.”

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