Retard vs Simple - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between retard and simple

is that retard is retardation; delay while simple is (medicine) a preparation made from one plant, as opposed to something made from more than one plant.

As verbs the difference between retard and simple

is that retard is to keep delaying; to continue to hinder; to prevent from progress; to render more slow in progress; to impede; to hinder while simple is (transitive|intransitive|archaic) to gather simples, ie, medicinal herbs.

As an adjective simple is

uncomplicated; taken by itself, with nothing added.

retard

English

(wikipedia retard)

Noun

(en noun)

Retardation; delay.

(slang, offensive) A person with mental retardation.

Do all retards have a low I.Q.?

(slang, offensive) A stupid person, or one who is slow to learn.

Synonyms

* (retardation) delay, hold-up, retardation * (person with mental retardation) idiot, tard (offensive), imbecile (disused medical term), mental deficient (legal term), moron (disused medical term), person with learning difficulties * (stupid person) See also

Verb

(en verb)

To keep delaying; to continue to hinder; to prevent from progress; to render more slow in progress; to impede; to hinder

retard the march of an army

retard the motion of a ship

To put off; to postpone.

to retard the attacks of old age

to retard a rupture between nations

(obsolete) To be slow or dilatory to perform (something).

To decelerate; to slow down.

(obsolete) To stay back.

(Sir Thomas Browne)

Synonyms

* decelerate, hinder, slow, slow down * (postpone) postpone, put off * (stay back) hang back, stay back

Antonyms

* accelerate, speed, speed up * (postpone) * (stay back) come forward

Derived terms

* retarded

References

* IQ Basics, including formerly used medical terms for people with very low IQs

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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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