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English Dictionary: simply by the DICT Development Group
2 results for simply
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
simply
adv
  1. and nothing more; "I was merely asking"; "it is simply a matter of time"; "just a scratch"; "he was only a child"; "hopes that last but a moment"
    Synonym(s): merely, simply, just, only, but
  2. absolutely; "I just can't take it anymore"; "he was just grand as Romeo"; "it's simply beautiful!"
    Synonym(s): just, simply
  3. absolutely; altogether; really; "we are simply broke"
  4. in a simple manner; without extravagance or embellishment; "she was dressed plainly"; "they lived very simply"
    Synonym(s): plainly, simply
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Simply \Sim"ply\, adv.
      1. In a simple manner or state; considered in or by itself;
            without addition; along; merely; solely; barely.
  
                     [They] make that now good or evil, . . . which
                     otherwise of itself were not simply the one or the
                     other.                                                --Hooker.
  
                     Simply the thing I am Shall make me live. --Shak.
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