Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Simply

Simply , adverb

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. — Shakespeare
2.
Plainly; without art or subtlety.
Subverting worldly strong and worldly wise By simply meek. — Milton
3.
Weakly; foolishly. — Johnson