merely
IPA: mˈɪrɫi
adverb
- (focus) Without any other reason etc.; only, just, and nothing more.
- (obsolete) Wholly, entirely.
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Examples of "merely" in Sentences
- The husband and father fell dead in the street before our eyes, -- and those who picked him up said he was drunk, but it turned out that he was merely starved, -- _merely_!
- My suspicion is that the label merely wanted an album that large numbers of people might like, and they did not think such a desire precluded the band from making an album that was valid.
- After viewing, I concluded that the title merely indicated "cracks" in the sanity of some of the film's characters -- but a crack is a slang term in the original South African where the novel was set vernacular.
- It also suggests that the question may be a confusing one -- perhaps respondents think that the question of who to trust to "handle" Iraq merely translates as, "presuming we're staying, who do you trust to continue the fight best?"
- The Next Right's Patrick Ruffini warns the GOP that if it concludes that President-Elect Barack Obama earned the title merely by pushing the right levers on the Internet, "they will draw the wrong lessons from this year;" Where does Chris Hughes fit into an Obama administration?, tweets NYU's Jay Rosen.
- Externals, things wholly extraneous of the man, steal upon the hearts and judgments of almost, if not altogether, all mankind; nor do I know more than one instance of a man who fully regards all the world as a stage and all the men and women merely players, and who (the dancing-school bow excepted) only values these players, the _dramatis personæ_ who build cities and who rear hedges, who govern provinces or superintend flocks, _merely as they act their parts_.
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