"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
(6) adequate, competent
Kolokacji: 2
(10) annoying, irritating
Kolokacji: 2
1. merely ceremonial = jedynie ceremoniał merely ceremonial
2. merely nominal = jedynie nominalny merely nominal
3. merely eccentric = jedynie ekscentryk merely eccentric
4. merely banal = jedynie banalny merely banal
  • He began to realize the emotion, and the loneliness, behind the banality of what she had said; he was ashamed of himself to have answered as if it were merely banal.
  • Arendt ... envisioned even the extreme evil which produced the Holocaust as merely banal [in Eichmann in Jerusalem].
  • For him, the road is not sinister; it is merely banal.
  • The absence of scenery and properties and the exploitation of the stage as stage both permit the cliched dialogue and prevent it from being merely banal.
  • For the most part, the film oscillates between the good and the merely banal".
  • As formal photographs, seen across nearly a century of surrealism, they succeed where, say, the fairy pictures that Arthur Conan Doyle famously endorsed don't, the fakery of the fairies being merely banal.
  • On their own terms, Brel's songs - the best, the merely banal and the unbearable - and these previously unsung ones fall mostly into the last two categories.
  • We have become so habituated to market relations that it can seem merely banal to observe that types of work which make a loss will, within market production, be reduced or discontinued, while types which make a profit will be expanded.
(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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