simpler
より単純な
解説 Definition
simpler は simple（単純な、簡単な）の比較級です。何かが別のものより複雑でなく、理解や実行がしやすいことを表します。
Less complicated, difficult, or elaborate than another thing, and therefore often easier to understand, explain, or use. It is the comparative form of simple and may introduce the item being compared with than.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
simple「単純な、簡単な」に比較級-erを付けた形で、「別のものより複雑でない」を表す。simpleは短母音の後に子音字が一つある形ではないため、pを重ねずsimplerとする。simpler than the old one、simpler words、simpler to useの型で覚え、比較対象をthanで示す。
Simpler is the comparative form of simple, so it means that one thing has less complexity or difficulty than another. Learn it with patterns such as simpler than the old method, simpler words, and simpler to use. The comparison may be explicit with than or understood from context. Form it by adding -er directly to simple: simpler. Do not double the p; simple does not follow the short-vowel-plus-single-final-consonant pattern that produces forms such as bigger. Contrast simpler with simplest, which compares one item with an entire group or identifies the lowest degree of complexity.
例文
This method is simpler than the old one.
この方法は以前のものより簡単です。
Can you use simpler words?
もっと簡単な言葉を使ってくれますか。
The new design makes the app simpler to use.
新しいデザインで、そのアプリはより使いやすくなっています。
simpler の類義語・関連語
simpler の語源・成り立ち Etymology
ラテン語simplex（sim-「一つの」+ plex「折り」）が古フランス語simpleを経て英語に入った。「一重の、折り目が一つ」が原義で、複雑でないことを表す。-erは比較級接尾辞。関連語：simplify（簡素化する）、complex（複雑な、反義語で「共に折り重なった」）。
Simpler consists of simple plus the comparative suffix -er. Simple entered English through Old French from Latin simplex, meaning single, plain, or uncompounded. The Latin word is traditionally analyzed through elements conveying the idea of onefold rather than multiply folded, which helps explain the later sense “not complex.” English -er marks a higher or lower comparative degree in many short adjectives. Thus simpler means having less complexity, elaboration, or difficulty than a comparison point.
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