Associations to the word «Merely»
Noun
- Supposing
- Essence
- Ignorance
- Connexion
- Superstition
- Pretending
- Idealism
- Conception
- Copying
- Censure
- Vanity
- Mankind
- But
- Perceiving
- Utterance
- Impossibility
- Politeness
- Tyranny
- Remark
- Intuition
- Presumption
- Fact
- Morality
- Christendom
- Necessity
- Abstraction
- Hegel
- Posterity
- Semblance
- Assent
- Affirmation
- Obedience
- Metaphor
- Exaggeration
- Regard
- Diversion
- Imagining
- Prejudice
- Reality
- Personage
- Nuisance
Adjective
Verb
Wiktionary
MERELY, adverb. (obsolete) Wholly, entirely. [16th-20th c.]
MERELY, adverb. (focus) Without any other reason etc.; only, just, and nothing more. [from 16th c.]
Dictionary definition
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".
Wise words
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing
in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in
the hands of one who knows how to combine them.