"merely" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

merely adverbio

verbo + merely
Kolokacji: 398
merely nod • merely smile • merely try • merely look • merely give • merely serve • merely want • merely use • merely take • ...
merely + adjetivo
Kolokacji: 53
merely curious • content merely • merely human • merely decorative • merely symbolic • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 17
1. merely curious = jedynie ciekawy merely curious
2. merely interested = jedynie zainteresowany merely interested
3. merely unconscious = jedynie nieprzytomny merely unconscious
4. merely speculative = jedynie oparty na przypuszczeniach merely speculative
5. merely improbable = jedynie mało prawdopodobny merely improbable
  • Ben Zoma's mind raced from the impossible to the merely improbable.
  • The impossible was beginning to seem merely improbable.
  • But though such theories were never disproved in the primitive era, they gradually began to seem not merely improbable but ignoble.
  • That was not merely improbable, it was impossible.
  • That was the least unlikely theory of the four, not at all impossible, merely improbable.
  • The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks.
  • Merely improbable in Italy.
  • That would seem to be not merely improbable, as the whole experience was, but physically impossible without some kind of "sub-space" communication link.
  • "Not impossible, merely improbable," she reassured him, staring into his eyes.
  • Becoming a storyteller," he observes, "was adding what appeared impossible to what was merely improbable.
(6) adequate, competent
Kolokacji: 2
(10) annoying, irritating
Kolokacji: 2
(13) physical, mechanical
Kolokacji: 2
(14) clever, stupid
Kolokacji: 2
(15) conjectural, hypothetical
Kolokacji: 2
(16) amusing, grotesque
Kolokacji: 2
(17) derivative, late
Kolokacji: 2

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