simpler

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

Adjective

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

Noun

  1. One who grows or gathers simples (medicinal herbs).
    • 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...
    • … 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. -...

Forms

simplers

Synonyms

simplist