English Explanatory Dictionary

simply

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adv
  1. In a simple way or state; considered in or by itself; without addition; alone.
  2. Plainly; without art or subtlety
  3. Foolishly; stupidly.
  4. Merely; solely.
  5. absolutely, positively.
  6. Frankly.

Pronunciation

/ˈsɪmpli/ en-us-simply.ogg

Word forms

simply more simply most simply

Etymology

From Middle English symply, symplely; equivalent to simple + -ly, with *-lely simplified to -ly by haplology.

Synonyms

clearly obviously unquestionably just barely but literally merely no more than nothing but only simply very above a bit absolutely sorely abundantly all too but good completely damn eminently ever so exceedingly excessively extremely flipping freaking fucking greatly highly in spades jolly main mightily murrain passing positively pretty quite really right somewhat sore specially strongly swith truly vastly very much way way too wicked wickedly honestly actually all things considered as a matter of fact by right certainly

Antonyms

complexly

Related words

single

Derived words

nonsimply purely and simply simply connected

Translations

Arabic: بِكُلّ بَسَاطَة Basque: apalki Bulgarian: просто Catalan: simplement Catalan: senzillament Czech: jednoduše Danish: slet og ret Esperanto: simple Finnish: yksinkertaisesti French: simplement Galician: simplemente German: einfach Greek: απλά Ancient Greek: ἁπλῶς Hungarian: egyszerűen Icelandic: einfaldlega Italian: semplicemente Italian: in parole povere Japanese: 単に Latin: simpliciter Lithuanian: tiesiog Malayalam: ലളിതമായി Norman: sîmpliément Norwegian: rett og slett Norwegian: ganske enkelt Norwegian: intet mindre enn Norwegian Bokmål: simpelthen Polish: po prostu Portuguese: simplesmente Russian: про́сто Serbo-Croatian: naprosto Slovene: preprosto Spanish: simplemente Spanish: sencillamente Swedish: helt enkelt Tamil: சும்மா Tamil: வெறுமனே Turkish: basitçe
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