Simpler

//ˈsɪm.pəl.ə// adj, name, noun

Definitions

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

    "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."

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from German.
Noun
  1. 1
    One who grows or gathers simples (medicinal herbs). archaic

    "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."

Etymology

Probably an altered form of German Simperl or Semperl.

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