"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
  • Kant holds that the definition of truth is merely nominal and, therefore, we cannot employ it to establish which judgements are true.
  • If the price set is merely nominal in amount, this may be a strong indication that the parties intend a donation, not a sale.
  • --Sofi being upon the frontier, the laws are merely nominal; accordingly there is an interesting mixture in the society.
  • I HAVE recognized that the cousinship was merely nominal, since we met as total strangers.
  • Hadley's charge will be merely nominal.
  • Under Felix and his successors, Frankish overlordship became merely nominal.
  • For a society, it is the ability to produce and secure holiness in its members, who display a real, not merely nominal, holiness.
  • The jurisdiction of the Ottoman Empire was merely nominal in the Lebanon.
  • Though proclaimed king when only three years of age, he was regarded as merely nominal by the unruly nobles to whom a minority was convenient.
  • The title was not 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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