Word Finder - simply

definition

(manner) In a simple way or state; considered in or by itself; without addition; alone.

definition

(manner) Plainly; without art or subtlety

synonyms

• clearly
• obviously
• unquestionably

definition

(manner) Weakly; foolishly; stupidly.

definition

(focus) Merely; solely.

example

I was simply asking a question.

synonyms

• just

definition

(degree) absolutely, positively.

example

That was a simply wonderful dessert.

synonyms

• very

definition

Frankly.

example

Simply, he just fired you.

synonyms

• honestly

People simply cannot move that fast.

Maybe Katie was simply trying to stay out of trouble.

He had simply avoided it.

Maybe he was simply tired.

I simply want to follow his lead.

Can't you simply ask his mother what he does for a living?

Was he going somewhere or simply exercising the horse?

She could drive, if someone would simply tell her where they were.

When we do not at all understand the cause of an action, whether a crime, a good action, or even one that is simply nonmoral, we ascribe a greater amount of freedom to it.

If he had simply ignored her, she might have been able to get her emotions under control, but now a sob threatened so convincingly that she was afraid to breathe.

This is simply returning to the people a portion of income from land that is publicly owned.

It was hard to say whether Alex was withholding facts so she couldn't contest his decisions or simply because he thought she did not need to know.

But then, maybe Alondra was one of those people who simply took a long time to warm to strangers.

As we noted earlier, people no longer disagree simply about what values to apply to a set of facts—rather, they disagree as to the nature of the facts themselves.

This is simply another form of trade, so some might accuse me of double counting some of my forty-three reasons war will end.

It simply wasn't like him to be rude like that.

Oh, he was simply beautiful!

Although they were rich, they lived simply and were at peace with all the world.

The man, a soldier with a sack over his shoulder, stopped, came close up to Dolokhov's horse, touched it with his hand, and explained simply and in a friendly way that the commander and the officers were higher up the hill to the right in the courtyard of the farm, as he called the landowner's house.

He simply said he would have told her to bring something else.

Do you think this detective suspects you folks are involved with the tipster or does he simply doesn't know why you're all lying?

Judge Marshall carried the turkey simply because he wished to be kind and obliging.

They exist simply because we have not had the means to solve them in the past.

I simply wish to refuse allegiance to the State, to withdraw and stand aloof from it effectually.

He could not tell them simply that everyone went at a trot and that he fell off his horse and sprained his arm and then ran as hard as he could from a Frenchman into the wood.

At that time, the Russians were so used to victories that on receiving news of the defeat some would simply not believe it, while others sought some extraordinary explanation of so strange an event.

And why didn't you simply come straight to me as to a friend?

And how simply she is dressed!

She moved simply to be farther away from the wounded man.

Adjutants and generals galloped about, shouted, grew angry, quarreled, said they had come quite wrong and were late, gave vent to a little abuse, and at last gave it all up and went forward, simply to get somewhere.

We have paid for the right to look at the matter plainly and simply, and we will not abandon that right.

It was simply that he didn't want to tell her - which amounted to the same thing.

Did he arrange to have Alex out of the way, or was he simply taking advantage of the situation?

It was neither good nor bad in her mind back then - it simply was.

Instinct told her his threat wasn't simply the liquor talking.

The pieces of the puzzle simply didn't fit together.

He simply went into town one day and never returned.

Would he simply walk away?

We were all at risk, simply because we could identify him!

Brennan's admonition that our tip line might be compromised was beyond being simply bothersome.

My wife thought he should go or Howie should simply kiss his mother's hand, give an excuse of pressing business, and come back east.

She simply shrugged and left.

Shall I simply kill them all to be sure?

Did the culprit do my work for me or simply get in my way?

I wasn't sure if the Pace Arrow motor home had vacated its site or simply was out for an afternoon jaunt.

He simply didn't have the control.

I simply want to know if it is she that can't be influenced or only I that can't influence her.

That way she could simply drive it back.

You were brought up with old-fashioned morals, so you simply didn't discuss things like that.

They weren't fighting — they simply didn't talk.