simply
pronunciation
How to pronounce simply in British English:
UK [ˈsɪmpli]
How to pronounce simply in American English:
US [ˈsɪmpli]
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- Adverb:
- and nothing more
- absolutely; altogether; really
- in a simple manner; without extravagance or embellishment
- absolutely
Word Origin
- simply (adv.)
- late 13c., simpleliche; see simple + -ly (2). Purely intensive sense is attested from 1580s.
Synonym
just solely unconditionally categorically merely positively unqualifiedly implicitly purely fully wholly only unreservedly completely utterly totally unquestionably certainly absolutely entirely
Example
- 1. Most of the non-americans will simply leave .
- 2. They are simply too irritating .
- 3. Temptation simply provides the choice .
- 4. And that is not living simply !
- 5. You simply want to be like everyone else .