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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
simply
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
purely and simply
▪ I do it purely and simply for the money.
simply because
▪ Many exam candidates lose marks simply because they do not read the questions properly.
simply disappear (=used to emphasize that it is very strange)
▪ After two weeks it seemed that the boys had simply disappeared.
simply refuse (=used for emphasis)
▪ Some children simply refuse to do what they’re told.
simply
▪ Put simply, our aim is to create art.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
mean
▪ This means simply that the customers have the claim on these deposits and thus the institutions are liable to meet the claims.
▪ To Freed, it purely and simply meant money.
▪ It means simply freedom from coercion by others and it is achieved when a sphere of private autonomy is created.
▪ Since we only have one planet to go on, this simply means that the process has happened once.
▪ But uneven development does not simply mean that types and quantities of physical and social phenomena vary from place to place.
▪ The banking industry is aggressively paring its ranks, and the current wave of megamergers simply means more layoffs.
▪ A mistake with the treatment will simply mean a double threat to the life of the patient.
▪ Many economists argue raising the minimum wage simply means higher unemployment among the very people such a measure is trying to help.
put
▪ The mercenary ones simply put up with them and pretend that they love them for what they can get out of them.
▪ They simply put it out and let the music speak for itself.
▪ He simply put the letters on Arty's locker and turned away.
▪ Their task, simply put, was to lay the scientific groundwork for the manned landing missions that were then being planned.
Put simply, the necessary finance can be made available to you in return for Barclays taking a minority shareholding in your business.
Put simply, intellectual property is not an obstacle to access.
▪ The questions were simply putting the officers' belief in his guilt to W, and he was making no reply.
Put simply, they believe aid fails due to the dichotomy between theory at a distance and practical reality at the local level.
want
▪ She simply wanted to meet me.
▪ They simply wanted more of my time.
▪ He subsequently endeavoured to explain that he simply wanted to question the cost-effectiveness of the programme in terms of lives saved.
▪ They simply wanted to jab Clinton.
▪ Some older people want classes specially for their own age group; others want simply to participate in adult education generally.
▪ Was that it, or did he simply want to de-emphasize the black heritage?
▪ As far as they are concerned, of course, they are simply wanting another ice-cream, or another go on the swing.
▪ You simply want something so much that you knock yourself out to get it.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
it's just/only/simply a question of doing sth
▪ Sometimes, it's simply a question of somewhere safe to go after school while parents are working.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ It's not simply a matter of hiring more people - they also need to be trained.
▪ She writes very simply and clearly.
▪ The strain on the rope was simply too much, and it broke in two.
▪ They live very simply in the country.
▪ We simply don't have the resources to compete with large corporations.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Already, many programs are simply unavailable in the older, 16-bit versions.
▪ But the rotational periods are correspondingly long and for all states are quite simply related to the rotational constants of the molecules.
▪ Mexicali Mayor Victor Hermosillo staunchly defended his police officers, saying they simply were maintaining public order.
▪ Most of them simply release their eggs and sperm and rely on the surrounding water to bring them together.
▪ Rome, in short, lived on its past simply by being a capital city.
▪ Suppose that we are simply given an algorithm which generates the digits of the real and imaginary part of some complex number.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Simply

Simply \Sim"ply\, adv.

  1. In a simple manner or state; considered in or by itself; without addition; along; merely; solely; barely.

    [They] make that now good or evil, . . . which otherwise of itself were not simply the one or the other.
    --Hooker.

    Simply the thing I am Shall make me live.
    --Shak.

  2. Plainly; without art or subtlety.

    Subverting worldly strong and worldly wise By simply meek.
    --Milton.

  3. Weakly; foolishly.
    --Johnson.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
simply

late 13c., simpleliche; see simple + -ly (2). Purely intensive sense is attested from 1580s.

Wiktionary
simply

adv. 1 (context manner English) In a simple way or state; considered in or by itself; without addition; alone. 2 (context manner English) plainly; without art or subtlety; clearly; obviously; unquestionably. 3 (context manner English) weakly; foolishly; stupidly. 4 (context focus English) merely; solely.

WordNet
simply
  1. adv. and nothing more; "I was merely asking"; "it is simply a matter of time"; "just a scratch"; "he was only a child"; "hopes that last but a moment" [syn: merely, just, only, but]

  2. absolutely; altogether; really; "we are simply broke"

  3. in a simple manner; without extravagance or embellishment; "she was dressed plainly"; "they lived very simply" [syn: plainly]

  4. absolutely; "I just can't take it anymore"; "he was just grand as Romeo"; "it's simply beautiful!" [syn: just]

Usage examples of "simply".

State court as constitutionally entitled to be accorded in the courts of sister States not simply the faith and credit of conclusive evidence, but the validity of a final judgment.

He might have had an accreditation, but he simply did not look the part.

To simply throw together one allele from a Gliksin and another from a Barast, then just hope for the best hardly seems prudent.

It was a commercial preparation kept in an ampoule from which she simply filled the syringe.

Achamian simply stared in blank horror, an anguished pendulum slowly swinging to and fro, to and fro .

Chamberlain later wrote that their conversation simply broke down, with the Southerner finally announcing that Chamberlain could never understand how the South felt.

Truthfully, I had no idea whether the paper was really that damned interesting, or whether he was simply keeping me standing in order to try and annoy me.

And with us the ruddy Solanum has obtained a wide popularity not simply at table as a tasty cooling sallet, or an appetising stew, but essentially as a supposed antibilious purifier of the blood.

They were supported by local Jacobin militants who had either been harassed during the federalist ascendancy or who simply enjoyed showing off their anticlerical zeal.

Along with the novel of plot and the novel of character, certain old-fashioned theorists of the novel would sometimes speak of the novel of ideas, implying that it was a special taste, and that there is something distinct, if not antithetical, about ideas and the kind of narrative pleasure one derives from less abstract and more simply suspenseful stones: what will happen next?

And yet its applicability was simply due to the language of the stage.

And the idea of asking Hong to appraise the chops was simply too apt to reject without a better reason than blind fear.

In fact, of course, he was simply an appraiser and could have worn an Armani suit for all the heavy lifting he was going to perform.

Finally, the contention has been made that in stressing the separate identities of a corporation and its stockholders, the Court overlooked the fact that when a surplus has been accumulated, the stockholders are thereby enriched, and that a stock dividend may therefore be appropriately viewed simply as a device whereby the corporation reinvests money earned in their behalf.

The Christian admonition to love our enemies and the older pagan admonition to know ourselves are at this level simply different ways of describing the same process of archetypal development.