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UK
/sˈɪmpli/
]
[ US /ˈsɪmpɫi/ ]
[ US /ˈsɪmpɫi/ ]
ADVERB
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and nothing more
it is simply a matter of time
hopes that last but a moment
I was merely asking
just a scratch
he was only a child -
in a simple manner; without extravagance or embellishment
she was dressed plainly
they lived very simply -
(used for emphasis) absolutely
it's simply beautiful!
he was just grand as Romeo
I just can't take it anymore -
absolutely; altogether; really
we are simply broke
How To Use simply In A Sentence
- It might as well be closed, because in many American hospitals you're simply shooed from the windowsill after you've been nursed back to health (usually in 72 hours or less), and you're expected to "fly" on your own. Mark Lachs, M.D.: Care Transitions: The Hazards of Going In and Coming Out of the Hospital
- She is simply bartering goodies in return for comparative quietness.
- Simply smooth a little on your face at night, lie back and say goodbye to dull and lifeless skin. The Sun
- Also the competition (as it's not all that hard to play)'s prodigious, even at youth orchestra level, so, in addition to playing something which almost often simply sounds flutey, it's very hard to get anywhere.
- The dozen pictures she had shot during a recent bath time -- including a few of Nora rinsing with a handheld shower sprayer -- were, for Cynthia, simply part of the vast photographic record she was keeping of her family's life. Lynn Powell: Pornographer or Soccer Mom?
- Many of the bays and inlets are simply beautiful and consist of rock or sand, sometimes dropping away dramatically into 50 feet of water, at other times sloping gently in to shallows of just a few feet.
- Some teachers also punish students by flogging them with whips made of rubber (from strips of old car tires), with heavier canes, or simply by slapping, kicking, or pinching them.
- The theory I do not accept: one simply folds his sails, unships his rudder, and waits the will of Providence, or the arrival of some compelling fate. Saunterings
- An established order of seeing, of understanding, of ruling, is simply exploded - the Modernist spirit asserts itself.
- People were simply showing their deep respect, their real admiration and their love for one they felt had touched their lives.