"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 human = jedynie ludzki merely human
2. merely sentimental = jedynie sentymentalny merely sentimental
3. merely average = jedynie średni merely average
4. merely mediocre = jedynie mierny merely mediocre
  • For example, publication bias can make a merely mediocre drug look spectacularly effective.
  • Posada will go out to the bullpen and feel the ball thumping into his mitt and know whether Clemens is overpowering, or if his stuff is merely mediocre.
  • It compounds the problem when one of these is put on stage, since what can be merely mediocre in a novel can be agonizingly dull in the theater.
  • In the end he is deemed merely mediocre and is left on Earth to perish (Quik the Thunder Rabbit)
  • Where the going gets tough, or ought to, is among the books that are merely mediocre.
  • In a merely mediocre production, such as the one it is receiving at the Long Island Stage, "Talley's Folly" survives quite well indeed.
  • If the Legislature makes such termination expensive, H.M.O.'s will only remove those doctors who are truly incompetent, not those who are merely mediocre.
  • But laws that throw out good officials along with the bad or merely mediocre are no solution to the problem of perpetual incumbents who don't deliver.
  • I find it is merely mediocre.
  • The September 1789 issue of The English Review, however, was highly critical, deeming Zeluco a merely mediocre novel.
5. merely indifferent = jedynie obojętny merely indifferent
(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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