Earnest vs Simple - What's the difference?

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Earnest is a related term of simple.

As a proper noun earnest

is , an occasional spelling variant of ernest.

As an adjective simple is

uncomplicated; taken by itself, with nothing added.

As a noun simple is

(medicine) a preparation made from one plant, as opposed to something made from more than one plant.

As a verb simple is

(transitive|intransitive|archaic) to gather simples, ie, medicinal herbs.

earnest

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) ernest, eornest, from (etyl) eornest, eornost, .

Noun

(-)

Gravity; serious purpose; earnestness.

* Sir Philip Sidney

Take heed that this jest do not one day turn to earnest .

* Shakespeare

given in earnest what I begged in jest

Seriousness; reality; actuality (as opposed to jesting or feigned appearance); fixed determination; eagerness; intentness.

Derived terms

* earnestful * in earnest

Verb

(en verb)

To be serious with; use in earnest.

* 1602 , Pastor Fido:

Let's prove among ourselves our armes in jest, That when we come to earnest them with men, We may them better use.

Etymology 2

From (etyl) eornest, from (etyl) .

Adjective

(en-adj)

Serious in speech or action; eager; urgent; importunate; pressing; instant.

Ardent in the pursuit of an object; eager to obtain or do; zealous with sincerity; with hearty endeavour; heartfelt; fervent; hearty; — used in a good sense; as, earnest prayers .

Intent; fixed closely; as, earnest attention .

Possessing or characterised by seriousness; strongly bent; intent.

an earnest disposition

Strenuous; diligent.

earnest efforts

Serious; weighty; of a serious, weighty, or important nature; not trifling or feigned; important.

Derived terms

* (l) * (l)

Etymology 3

Of uncertain origin; apparently related to (erres). Compare also (l).

Noun

(en noun)

A sum of money paid in advance as a deposit; hence, a pledge, a guarantee, an indication of something to come.

* 1990 , (Peter Hopkirk), The Great Game , Folio Society 2010, p. 365:

But if all this was viewed by Gladstone and the Cabinet as an earnest of St Petersburg's future good intentions in Central Asia, then disillusionment was soon to follow.

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simple

English

Adjective

(er)

Uncomplicated; taken by itself, with nothing added.

*:“[…] We are engaged in a great work, a treatise on our river fortifications, perhaps? But since when did army officers afford the luxury of amanuenses in this simple republic?”

*2001 , Sydney I. Landau, Dictionaries: The Art and Craft of Lexicography , Cambridge University Press (ISBN 0-521-78512-X), page 167,

*:There is no simple way to define precisely a complex arrangement of parts, however homely the object may appear to be.

Without ornamentation; plain.

Free from duplicity; guileless, innocent, straightforward.

* (ca.1576-1634)

*:Full many fine men go upon my score, as simple as I stand here, and I trust them.

*(Lord Byron) (1788-1824)

*:Must thou trust Tradition's simple tongue?

*(Ralph Waldo Emerson) (1803-1882)

*:To be simple is to be great.

Undistinguished in social condition; of no special rank.

Trivial; insignificant.

*1485 , (Thomas Malory), (w, Le Morte d'Arthur) , Book X:

*:‘That was a symple cause,’ seyde Sir Trystram, ‘for to sle a good knyght for seyynge well by his maystir.’

Feeble-minded; foolish.

Structurally uncomplicated.

#(lb) Consisting of one single substance; uncompounded.

#(lb) Of a group: having no normal subgroup.

#(lb) Not compound, but possibly lobed.

#(lb) Consisting of a single individual or zooid; not compound.

#(lb) Homogenous.

(lb) Mere; not other than; being only.

*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

*:A medicinewhose simple touch / Is powerful to araise King Pepin.

Synonyms

* (consisting of a single part or aspect) onefold * (having few parts or features) plain * See also

Antonyms

* (having few parts or features) complex, compound, complicated * (uncomplicated) subtle

Derived terms

* fee simple * future simple * oversimple * past simple * plain and simple * present simple * pure and simple * simple beam * simple connectivity * simple contract * simple dislocation * simple equation * simple extension * simple eye * simple fraction * simple fracture * simple fruit * simple function * simple future * simple group * simple harmonic motion * simple-hearted * simple interest * simple leaf * simple linear regression * simple machine * simple mastectomy * simple microscope * simple-minded * simple past * simple pendulum * simple pistil * simple pole * simple present * simple protein * simple regression * simple sentence * Simple Simon * simple sugar * simple syrup * simple time * simple trust * simplehead * simpleness * simpless * simplex * simply * single * simplicity * simpleton

Noun

(en noun)

(medicine) A preparation made from one plant, as opposed to something made from more than one plant.

*, II.37:

*:I know there are some simples , which in operation are moistening and some drying.

*Sir W. Temple

*:What virtue is in this remedy lies in the naked simple itself as it comes over from the Indies.

(obsolete) A term for a physician, derived from the medicinal term above.

(logic) A simple or atomic proposition.

(obsolete) Something not mixed or compounded.

*Shakespeare

*:compounded of many simples

(weaving) A drawloom.

(weaving) Part of the apparatus for raising the heddles of a drawloom.

(Roman Catholic) A feast which is not a double or a semidouble.

Verb

(simpl)

(transitive, intransitive, archaic) To gather simples, ie, medicinal herbs.

Derived terms

* simpler * simplist * simplify

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