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  • IPA(key): /ˈsɪmplɪfaɪd/, /ˈsɪmpləfaɪd/

simplified (comparative more simplified, superlative most simplified)

  1. Made more simple; having its complexity reduced.
    • 2020 July 29, Paul Stephen, “A new collaboration centred on New Street”, in Rail, page 56:

      With punctuality nosediving and both overcrowding and cancellations on the rise, a new simplified timetable was introduced in December amid threats from the Mayor that he would ask the Secretary of State for Transport to strip Abellio of the franchise.

  2. Relating to simplified Chinese.
    Coordinate term: traditional

    The traditional form of the character has twice as many strokes as the simplified form.

made simpler

simplified

  1. simple past and past participle of simplify

simplified (uncountable)

  1. (informal, uncountable) Short for simplified Chinese.
    Coordinate term: traditional