Mainly vs Simply - What's the difference?
mainly | simply |
(label) Forcefully, vigorously.
* , III.i:
(label) Of the production of a sound: loudly, powerfully.
*, II.31:
(label) To a great degree; very much.
Chiefly; for the most part.
*, chapter=12
, title= (manner) In a simple way or state; considered in or by itself; without addition; alone.
(manner) Plainly; without art or subtlety; clearly; obviously; unquestionably.
(manner) Weakly; foolishly; stupidly.
(focus) Merely; solely.
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, title= (degree) absolutely, positively.
(speech act) Frankly.
As adverbs the difference between mainly and simply
is that mainly is (label) forcefully, vigorously while simply is (manner) in a simple way or state; considered in or by itself; without addition; alone.mainly
English
Adverb
(-)- Mainly they all attonce vpon him laid, / And sore beset on euery side around.
- But in the end, mainly crying out, he fell to raling and wringing his master, upbraiding him that he was not a true Philosopher.
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=She had Lord James' collar in one big fist and she pounded the table with the other and talked a blue streak. Nobody could make out plain what she said, for she was mainly jabbering Swede lingo, but there was English enough, of a kind, to give us some idee.}}
Anagrams
* English focus adverbssimply
English
Adverb
(en adverb)- (Johnson)
Ideas coming down the track, passage=A “moving platform” scheme