simpler
adjectivenouncommon in dialogue
- Canada//ˈsɪm.pəl.ɚ//
- Canada//ˈsɪm.plɚ//
- Australia//ˈsɪm.pəl.ə//
- Australia//ˈsɪm.plə//
One who grows or gathers simples (medicinal herbs).
adjective
- 1
Also a form of simplecomparative form of simple: more simple, less complicated or challenging.
noun
- 1
archaicOne 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 with it under the name given by Gerard or Ray.
… 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
- plural
- simplers
simpler · One who grows or gathers simples (medicinal herbs).
Simpler · A surname from German.simplicity · The state or quality of being simplesimply · In a simple way or state; considered in or by itself; without…