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| merely |
adverb |
| 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" |
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Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary -
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ˈmerely adverb
simply or only
Example:
I was merely asking a question.
| Arabic: | مُجَرَّدا، فَقَط |
| Chinese (Simplified): | 仅仅 |
| Chinese (Traditional): | 僅僅 |
| Czech: | jenom |
| Danish: | blot; kun |
| Dutch: | alleen maar |
| Estonian: | ainult |
| Finnish: | ainoastaan |
| French: | seulement |
| German: | bloß |
| Greek: | απλά, μόνο |
| Hungarian: | csupán |
| Icelandic: | einungis |
| Indonesian: | sekadar |
| Italian: | solamente |
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| Japanese: | 単に |
| Korean: | 그저, 단지 |
| Latvian: | tikai; vienīgi |
| Lithuanian: | paprasčiausiai, tiktai |
| Norwegian: | utelukkende, blott, bare |
| Polish: | po prostu, jedynie |
| Portuguese (Brazil): | meramente |
| Portuguese (Portugal): | simplesmente |
| Romanian: | pur şi simplu; doar |
| Russian: | просто, только |
| Slovak: | len |
| Slovenian: | samo |
| Spanish: | sólo, meramente |
| Swedish: | bara, endast |
| Turkish: | sadece |
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary -
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Merely
Mere"ly\, adv. 1. Purely; unmixedly; absolutely.
Ulysses was to force forth his access, Though merely naked. --Chapman.
2. Not otherwise than; simply; barely; only.
Prize not your life for other ends Than merely to obige your friends. --Swift.
Syn: Solely; simply; purely; barely; scarcely.
| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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