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Definition of Simply
1. Adverb. And nothing more. "Hopes that last but a moment"
2. Adverb. Absolutely. "It's simply beautiful!"
3. Adverb. Absolutely; altogether; really. "We are simply broke"
4. Adverb. In a simple manner; without extravagance or embellishment. "They lived very simply"
Definition of Simply
1. adv. In a simple manner or state; considered in or by itself; without addition; along; merely; solely; barely.
Definition of Simply
1. Adverb. (context: manner) In a simple way or state; considered in or by itself; without addition; alone ¹
2. Adverb. (context: manner) Plainly; without art or subtlety; clearly; obviously; unquestionably. ¹
3. Adverb. (context: manner) Weakly; foolishly; stupidly. ¹
4. Adverb. (context: focus) merely; solely. ¹
5. Adverb. (context: degree) absolutely, positively. ¹
6. Adverb. (context: speech act) Frankly. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Simply
1. in a simple manner [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Simply
Literary usage of Simply
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne (1874)
"IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG simply DOES HIS DUTY. THREE passengers—including Passepartout—had
disappeared. Had they been killed in the struggle ? ..."
2. Journal by Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain) (1875)
"And as to its utility, would they not have said, " Why you are doing the very
same things as were done by Smeaton, and you aro simply doing them, ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"In short, the obligation was one to a territory and not to any power; and if to
any power simply to that in control of the Isthmus, no matter what its ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"As no such classification has received general acceptance, we may ourselves
abandon the attempt to be logical, and simply pass in brief review the most ..."
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