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If a problem is simple or if its solution is simple, the problem can be solved easily. Some puzzles look difficult but once the solution is known are actually quite simple. The answer is simple. I cut my purchases dramatically by the simple expedient of destroying my credit cards.

SIMPLE definition: 1. easy to understand or do; not difficult: 2. used to describe the one important fact, truth…. Learn more.

(prenominal) ordinary or straightforward: a simple case of mumps (of a substance or material) consisting of only one chemical compound rather than a mixture of compounds

Presenting no difficulties or obstacles; easily done, used, understood, or the like; adapted to man's natural powers of acting or thinking; plain; clear; easy: as, a simple task; a simple statement; a simple explanation.

simple (comparative simpler or more simple, superlative simplest or most simple) Uncomplicated; lacking complexity; taken by itself, with nothing added. synonyms, antonym quotations

Simple refers to something that's easy and uncomplicated, without too many steps to follow.

Simple describes something as being easy to understand or do, as being plain or not elaborate, or as being ordinary or common. The word simple has many other senses as an adjective and a noun.