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Simpler vs Simplicate - What's the difference?

simpler | simplicate |

As an adjective simpler

is (simple) less complicated or challenging.

As a noun simpler

is (archaic) one who grows or gathers simples (medicinal herbs).

As a verb simplicate is

to make a system more complex so that the use of the system is easier or simpler.

simpler

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (simple) Less complicated or challenging.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) One who grows or gathers simples (medicinal herbs).
  • * 1781 , , Miscellanies'', Essay VII, ''On the Linnæan System , page 273:
    • 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.
  • * 1833 , William Hogarth, Anecdotes of William Hogarth: written by himself , page 48:
    • … 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.

    Synonyms

    * simplist

    Anagrams

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    simplicate

    English

    Verb

    (simplicat)
  • To make a system more complex so that the use of the system is easier or simpler.
  • :Our audience is getting younger and less educated, so despite the additional fabrication costs, we must simplicate the new model of this machine to improve ease of use.

    • Usage notes

    Used in design of solutions to complex problems or situations.
    1) A GUI is easier to use than a CLI, but requires more software to implement.
    2) Replace a keyboard with a microphone and speech recognition software.
    3) Gucci and Blahnik clothing looks clean and simple, and addresses complex requirements for comfort, wear, and appearance, but requires much more care in the choice of colors, material & structural technology, and craft. (This might also illustrate sophisticated.)