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simply adverb. ME.
[from SIMPLE adjective + -LY2.]
In an honest or ingenuous manner; without guile; openly. ME.
J. Ruskin Beautifully and simply, as a child ought to dance.
a. Plainly; without luxury; in a simple unelaborate style; without complication. Formerly also, humbly. ME.
S. Bedford He lives very simply. Punch The story develops as simply as one could imagine.
b. So as to be readily understood, clearly. LME.
H. James The great views, to put it simply, would be too much for her.
c. Logic. By which the quantity of the proposition remains unchanged in a conversion. Opp. PER ACCIDENS 2. L16.
a. Without addition or qualification; merely, only. ME.
J. B. Priestley The woman had not been unfriendly but simply absent-minded. J. M. Coetzee Ready to believe he was simply a vagrant. Good Housekeeping Simply add water..simmer and serve.
b. Without exception; without doubt, absolutely. Freq. as an intensive. L16.
I. Murdoch You simply haven't the faintest idea. E. Figes Make a house under the..table and vanish for simply ages.
Poorly, wretchedly; indifferently; inadequately. ME-M18.
In a foolish or stupid manner; without ordinary intelligence or sense. Formerly also, ignorantly. M16.
Phrases: simply connected Math. (of a surface or other continuous set of points) connected in such a way that every closed curve lying within it forms the boundary of some surface lying within it.