simpler

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪmplɚ/, /ˈsɪmpəlɚ/

Adjective

simpler

1. comparative form of simple: more simple, less complicated or challenging.

Noun

simpler (plural simplers)

1. (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.

   • 1833, William Hogarth, Anecdotes of William Hogarth: written by himself, page 48:

     … may with no great impropriety be termed going a simpling; but with this special difference, that your field simpler never picks up a nettle for a marsh-mallow; a mistake which your tour simpler is very liable to.

Synonyms

• simplist

Anagrams

• limpers, prelims, rimples

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Adjective

simpler

1. comparative degree of simpel