"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
  • This move not only ended Sukarno's merely ceremonial presidential role, but also increased the army's influence and power as Nasution had wished for.
  • They decided to significantly curb the powers of the president, to a point merely ceremonial.
  • By the middle of the 20th century the provinces had become merely ceremonial.
  • Somehow, he noted over his shoulder, they contrived to make it seem merely ceremonial.
  • Charles' attacks of illness increased in frequency such that by the end of the 1390s his role was merely ceremonial.
  • It is not merely ceremonial, not at more than 100 miles an hour, and Yeager loves it.
  • Today, by agreement of the two parties, the Majority Leader selects the Secretary of the Senate, and the election is merely ceremonial.
  • Their nudity was no longer erotic, merely ceremonial.
  • But growing numbers of Spaniards are questioning whether bullfighting is even a sport, or merely unnecessary ceremonial cruelty to animals.
  • While the king is generally reckoned as having a merely ceremonial role in politics, he commands great moral authority as an essential symbol of the country's unity.
2. merely nominal = jedynie nominalny merely nominal
3. merely eccentric = jedynie ekscentryk merely eccentric
4. merely banal = jedynie banalny merely banal
(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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