Perfectly
Simply
Simply adverb - For nothing other than.
Perfectly and simply are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Perfectly" instead an adverb "Simply".
Nearby Words: simple, simplistic
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She herself claims that her desire to survive at any cost is perfectly in keeping with her old self, and that Vidarian's surprise shows he simply didn't know her as well as he claimed.
Source: Literature / The Chaos Knight -
For instance, if you ask him who Elohim is when you first boot him up, he simply parrots back the dictionary definition of the Hebrew word as a mindless AI would, though he knows perfectly well what you meant.
Source: Video Game / The Talos Principle - Chinatown. In this case Gittes understands perfectly well what Sessions means but is simply exasperated by his lot in life.
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