"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 • ...

colocaciones frecuentes

Kolokacji: 1

collocations grouped by meanings

Grup znaczeniowych: 17

(1) curious, interested, unconscious, speculative, improbable

Kolokacji: 5

(2) content, theoretical, rhetorical, academic

Kolokacji: 4

(3) human, sentimental, mediocre, average, indifferent

Kolokacji: 5

(4) decorative, symbolic, cosmetic, ornamental

Kolokacji: 4

(5) good, inconvenient, technical, superficial, arbitrary

Kolokacji: 5

(6) adequate, competent

Kolokacji: 2

(7) mortal, temporary, subjective

Kolokacji: 3

(8) descriptive, advisory, indicative

Kolokacji: 3

(9) incidental, coincidental, accidental

Kolokacji: 3

(10) annoying, irritating

Kolokacji: 2

(11) ceremonial, nominal, eccentric, banal

Kolokacji: 4

(12) serviceable, functional, practical

Kolokacji: 3

(13) physical, mechanical

Kolokacji: 2

(14) clever, stupid

Kolokacji: 2

(15) conjectural, hypothetical

Kolokacji: 2

(16) amusing, grotesque

Kolokacji: 2

1. merely amusing = jedynie rozśmieszając merely amusing

2. merely grotesque = jedynie groteska merely grotesque

Poetic and compressed, it is not a pointed finger, or an artless blurt, but a grimly hypnotic horror story, making human what might in other hands seem merely grotesque.
"Luck, Pluck and Virtue" intends to be savage, but having no clear vision and no cutting edge, it's merely grotesque and lightweight.
And now, this thrilling experience had turned out to be merely grotesque.
These ranged from the merely grotesque to the truly startling.
But now they seemed merely grotesque physiological machines.
His children and grandchildren saw the dwarf clowns as merely grotesque; in the circus, they existed solely to be laughed at.
To one person a story is terrible beyond all imagination; to another, it is merely grotesque.
Everywhere were deserted temples and desolate, leering images, some in the image of the Idol of Birkbegn, others merely grotesque.
About the Professor's makeup and all his antics there was always something merely grotesque, like a gollywog.
That Bert, with a straight face, should offer it to her at this time struck her as merely grotesque.

(17) derivative, late

Kolokacji: 2

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