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 oblige your friends.

Swift.

Syn. – Solely; simply; purely; barely; scarcely.

Merely

ME'RELY

,

adv.

Purely; only; solely; thus and no other way; for this and no other purpose.

Price not your life for other ends

Than merely to oblige your friends.

merely

English

Adverb

merely ‎(not comparable)

(obsolete) Wholly, entirely. [16th-20th c.]
- 1644, John Milton, Aeropagitica:
  It is not forgot, since the acute and distinct Arminius was perverted meerly by the perusing of a namelesse discourse writt'n at Delf, which at first he took in hand to confute.
(focus) Without any other reason etc.; only, just, and nothing more. [from 16th c.]

Translations

only, just, and nothing more

Arabic: بِالْكَاد ‎(bi-l-kād)
Belarusian: то́лькі ‎(tólʹki), про́ста ‎(prósta)
Catalan: merament, simplement
Chinese:
Mandarin: 只是 (zh) ‎(zhǐshì), 只不過 (zh), 只不过 (zh) ‎(zhǐbuguò), 僅僅 (zh), 仅仅 (zh) ‎(jǐnjǐn)
Czech: pouze (cs)
Dutch: alleen (nl), louter (nl)
Finnish: vain (fi), ainoastaan (fi), pelkästään (fi)
French: simplement (fr), uniquement (fr), seulement (fr)
German: bloß (de), lediglich (de), nur (de), schier (de)
Hungarian: csak (hu), csupán (hu)
Italian: soltanto (it), solamente (it), meramente (it), semplicemente (it)
Japanese: 単に ‎(たんに, tanni), ばかり (ja) ‎(bakari), ただ (ja) ‎(tada)
Khmer: គ្រាន់តែ (km) ‎(kroan tae)
Korean: 한낱 (ko) ‎(hannat), 그저 (ko) ‎(geujeo), 단지 (ko) ‎(danji)

Latin: sōlum (la)
Navajo: tʼóó
Nyunga: arda
Polish: tylko (pl)
Portuguese: meramente (pt), somente (pt)
Romanian: doar (ro), abia (ro)
Russian: то́лько (ru) ‎(tólʹko), про́сто (ru) ‎(prósto), лишь (ru) ‎(lišʹ), всего́-на́всего (ru) ‎(vsevó-návsevo)
Serbo-Croatian: prosto (sh), jedino (sh)
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: jano
Spanish: ^{(please verify)}meramente, ^{(please verify)}sólo (es), ^{(please verify)}solamente (es), ^{(please verify)}uno y nada más
Turkish: sadece (tr), yalnızca (tr)
Ukrainian: лише́ ‎(lyšé), ті́льки (uk) ‎(tílʹky), про́сто ‎(prósto)
Vietnamese:
ǃXóõ: ǁʻáa

Statistics

Most common English words before 1923: arm · wrong · afraid · #647: merely · struck · man's · write

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