simple

/ˈsɪm.pəl/

意味: 簡単なこと、単純な人

例文: The recipe was perfect for simples.
　　  そのレシピは単純派にぴったりだった。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: simple task(簡単な作業), simple solution(簡単な解決策), simple question(簡単な質問)

定義: 簡単な、複雑でない、理解しやすいことを指します。物事がシンプルであるとき、それは多くの部分や要素を持たず、扱いやすいです。日常生活でよく使われ、特に初心者や子供にとって理解しやすいものを表現する際に使われます。

simpleは約8,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

口語性、形式性、抽象度、感情度 - 横向き棒グラフ

水平グラフ: 会話での使われやすさ、フォーマル度、抽象度（具体・概念）、感情度を示します。数値が高いほど、その特徴が強いことを表します。

感情分析 レーダーチャート

感情グラフ: 怒り、期待、嫌悪、恐れ、喜び、悲しみ、驚き、信頼、ポジティブ、ネガティブの強さを示します。

Definitions(定義)

Noun: any herbaceous plant having medicinal properties
Noun: a person lacking intelligence or common sense
Adjective: having few parts; not complex or complicated or involved
Adjective: easy and not involved or complicated
Adjective: apart from anything else; without additions or modifications
Adjective: exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity
Adjective: lacking mental capacity and subtlety
Adjective: (botany) of leaf shapes; of leaves having no divisions or subdivisions
Adjective: unornamented

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun, Adjective

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

The instructions were clear and simple to follow.(指示は明確で簡単に従えました。)
She wore a simple dress to the party.(彼女はパーティーにシンプルなドレスを着ていました。)
This recipe is simple but very delicious.(このレシピは簡単ですがとても美味しいです。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

Adjective: a simple problem
Adjective: simple mechanisms
Adjective: a simple design
Adjective: a simple substance
Adjective: an elementary problem in statistics
Adjective: elementary, my dear Watson
Adjective: a simple game
Adjective: found an uncomplicated solution to the problem
Adjective: only the bare facts
Adjective: shocked by the mere idea
Adjective: the simple passage of time was enough
Adjective: the simple truth
Adjective: childlike trust
Adjective: dewy-eyed innocence
Adjective: listened in round-eyed wonder
Adjective: a simple country schoolhouse
Adjective: her black dress–simple to austerity

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): bare, childlike, dewy-eyed, dim-witted, elementary, mere, round-eyed, simple, simple-minded, simpleton, uncomplicated, unproblematic, unsubdivided, wide-eyed

Antonyms(反意語): complex, compound

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): herb, person

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): abator, abjurer, abomination, abstainer, abyssinian banana, acanthus, achiever, achillea, acquaintance, acquirer, active, actor, adjudicator, admirer, adoptee, adult, adventurer, adversary, advisee, advocate, affiant, african, agnostic, agrimonia, alexander, alpine coltsfoot, alumroot, amaranth, amateur, american ginseng, amerindian, anchusa, ancient, andryala, angelica, anise, anomaly, anti, anti-american, apple of peru, applicant, appointee, appreciator, apprehender, aquarius, archaist, aries, arnica, arrogator, arum, asclepiad, asparagus, asparagus fern, aspidistra, assessee, asthmatic, astilbe, astrantia, australian pitcher plant, authority, autodidact, ayapana, baby blue-eyes, baby boomer, baby buster, bad guy, bad person, baldhead, balker, balsamroot, banana, barilla, barrenwort, basil, basil thyme, bather, beard, bedfellow, bedstraw, beefsteak plant, belladonna, bereaved, bergenia, best, bird of paradise, bird’s foot trefoil, birth, biter, black, black horehound, black salsify, bladderpod, bleeding heart, blogger, blond, bloodroot, bloodwort, blue pimpernel, bluecoat, blueweed, bodybuilder, bomber, boneset, borage, breadroot, brunet, buckwheat, bugle, bugleweed, bullfighter, bur reed, bush pea, buster, butterbur, buttercup, butterweed, button snakeroot, calamint, campanula, camphor dune tansy, cancer, candidate, canna, capitalist, capricorn, captor, caraway, cardamom, carnivorous plant, carrot, caryophyllaceous plant, case, cashier, cat’s foot, catmint, celebrant, celeriac, celery, censor, chaenactis, chameleon, chamois cress, chamomile, changer, charmer, chervil, chickweed, chicory, child, chinese forget-me-not, chutzpanik, clammyweed, climbing onion, closer, clover, clumsy person, cockscomb, coleus, collector, color-blind person, coltsfoot, columbo, combatant, comfrey, common amsinckia, common unicorn plant, commoner, communicator, complexifier, compulsive, computer user, contemplative, contestant, convert, copycat, coral necklace, coreopsis, coriander, corn salad, costmary, costusroot, cottonweed, counter, counterterrorist, cow parsley, cow parsnip, coward, crawler, creator, creature, creditor, creeping zinnia, cripple, crotalaria, crucifer, cumin, cupflower, dagga, dancer, dandelion, dead nettle, dead person, deaf person, debaser, debtor, defecator, delayer, deliverer, demander, dieter, differentiator, dill, disentangler, disputant, dissenter, divider, dock, dog fennel, dog’s mercury, domestic partner, double, draba, dragonhead, dresser, dribbler, drug user, drypis, dutchman’s breeches, dyslectic, earthnut, ectomorph, effecter, eggplant, egyptian henbane, elephant’s-foot, elizabethan, elsholtzia, emotional person, endive, endomorph, engineer, enjoyer, enrollee, entertainer, ethnic, evening primrose, experimenter, expert, explorer, extrovert, face, faddist, faller, false bugbane, false foxglove, false gromwell, false nettle, false rue anemone, fastener, female, fennel, fenugreek, feverfew, feverroot, fiduciary, fiesta flower, first-rater, flax, fleabane, foamflower, follower, forget-me-not, foxglove, fraxinella, free agent, friend, fringepod, fugitive, fumitory, gainer, galax, gambler, garden forget-me-not, gatekeeper, gatherer, gemini, gentile, geranium, gesneria, giant buttercup, giant hyssop, ginger, ginseng, gipsywort, glasswort, globe thistle, globeflower, goat’s rue, golden groundsel, goldenseal, goldthread, good guy, good person, goosefoot, grains of paradise, gramineous plant, granter, green gentian, greeter, grinner, groaner, gromwell, ground cherry, grunter, guesser, gumweed, halogeton, handicapped person, hater, hawkweed, heartleaf, hedge mustard, hedge nettle, hemp agrimony, hemp nettle, henbane, hepatica, herb mercury, herb paris, herbage, heterosexual, hoary alison, hoary puccoon, homosexual, homunculus, honesty, hope, hoper, horehound, horse balm, horseradish, hound’s-tongue, huddler, hugger, hyssop, immune, indian lettuce, indian plantain, individualist, inhabitant, innocent, insured, intellectual, interpreter, introvert, inula, ironweed, jat, jew, jewel, jewelweed, joe-pye weed, jumper, junior, juvenile, kangaroo paw, kidney vetch, killer, kink, kneeler, kniphofia, knocker, knower, krigia, ladies’ tobacco, lamb succory, large person, large-flowered fiddleneck, latin, laugher, leader, learner, left-hander, legume, lemon balm, leo, leopard plant, leopard’s-bane, lettuce, libra, licorice, life, lightning rod, linguist, lion’s foot, lion’s-ear, literate, liver, loasa, lobelia, longer, loose cannon, loosestrife, lovage, loved one, lover, machine, mailer, malcontent, male, man, man jack, mandrake, manipulator, maranta, married, marsh felwort, martynia, masturbator, mayapple, measurer, medic, mesomorph, mestizo, middlebrow, milk thistle, milkweed, mint, miracle man, misogamist, miterwort, mixed-blood, modern, molucca balm, monarda, money handler, monolingual, moon carrot, mother hen, motherwort, mountain mint, mouse, mouse-ear chickweed, mullein, mustang mint, mutilator, namer, namesake, nasturtium, national, native, neglecter, neighbor, nemophila, neutral, new zealand spinach, nondescript, nonmember, nonparticipant, nonpartisan, nonperson, nonreligious person, nonresident, nonsmoker, nonworker, nude, nurser, occultist, okra, one-flowered wintergreen, optimist, orach, origanum, orphan, ostrich, ouster, outcaste, outdoorsman, owner, oxalis, pamperer, pansexual, pardoner, parsley, parsnip, partner, party, passer, peer, pellitory, pellitory-of-the-wall, pennyroyal, peperomia, perceiver, percher, periwinkle, person of color, personage, personification, perspirer, philosopher, phlox, physostegia, pia, pickaback plant, picker, pimpernel, pineapple, pineapple weed, pipsissewa, pisces, pisser, planner, plantain, plantain lily, player, plumbago, pokeweed, polemonium, posturer, powderer, prairie mimosa, precursor, preserver, prickly poppy, primitive, primrose, propositus, pteropogon, public relations person, puccoon, purslane, pursuer, pussycat, pyrethrum, quarter, quitter, radical, rattlesnake root, realist, rectifier, red fox, redhead, registrant, relative, reliever, religious person, repeater, rescuer, reseda, rester, restrainer, revenant, rhubarb, rich person, right-hander, riser, rock purslane, rocket, romper, rosemary, roundhead, rue, ruler, rusher, safflower, sage, sagittarius, sainfoin, salad burnet, salpiglossis, salsify, sand devil’s claw, sanicle, savory, sawwort, saxifrage, scentless camomile, scientist, scopolia carniolica, scorpio, scratcher, sea kale, sea milkwort, sea-rocket, second-rater, sedum, seeder, seeker, segregate, self, self-heal, sensualist, sentimentalist, sesame, sex object, sex symbol, shaker, shamrock pea, sheep plant, showman, signer, simple, simpleton, six-footer, skidder, skullcap, slav, slave, sleepyhead, sloucher, small person, smasher, smiler, sneezer, sneezeweed, sniffer, sniffler, snuffer, snuffler, socializer, sort, sounding board, sphinx, spiderflower, spiderwort, spitter, sport, sprawler, spurge nettle, spurner, squinter, squirrel corn, stapelia, stevia, stickweed, stifler, stigmatic, stone parsley, stonecress, stooper, stranger, strawberry, struggler, subject, suksdorfia, supernumerary, surrenderer, survivalist, survivor, suspect, sweet cicely, sweet coltsfoot, sweet false chamomile, sweet unicorn plant, tagger, tansy mustard, tansy-leaved rocket, tapper, tarweed, tassel flower, taurus, teasel, tempter, termer, terror, testator, thin person, third-rater, thorny amaranth, thrower, thyme, tiger, tobacco, tomato, totemist, toucher, transfer, transsexual, transvestite, traveler, trier, turfing daisy, turmeric, turner, tyrant, umbellifer, umbrella plant, undoer, unfortunate, unskilled person, unwelcome person, user, vanisher, vegetable, vegetable sheep, victim, victorian, viola, virginia bluebell, virgo, visionary, visually impaired person, waiter, waker, walk-in, wall rocket, wanter, ward, warrior, wasabi, watcher, water horehound, waterleaf, weakling, weasel, white, white rocket, white snakeroot, wiggler, wild basil, wild celery, wild ginger, wild licorice, wild senna, wild vanilla, willowherb, winged pea, winker, winter aconite, winter heliotrope, wintergreen, withholder, witness, woad, wood mint, worker, worldling, wort, yawner, yellow bells, yerba buena, yerba mansa

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): airhead, dimwit, dingbat, dumbbell, fool, idiot, idiot savant, nebbish, nincompoop, scatterbrain, schlemiel, schlepper, schnook, sheep, space cadet, square, stupid, subnormal, twerp

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: simpleness, simplicity

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: psychology

Usage Category: common

Usage Context: descriptive

Grammatical Notes:

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Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞):

Suffixes(接尾辞):

Exam Level

中学レベル

英検3級

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Atomic Habits, Holes

Movies(映画): The Bad Guys, Zootopia

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) No

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) No

Emotion Categories: