"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

1. merely human = jedynie ludzki merely human

2. merely sentimental = jedynie sentymentalny merely sentimental

It's yet another extravagant metaphor for heartbreak, but the lyrics are too pointed to be merely sentimental.
But because these people are so flimsily delineated, their efforts to connect feel merely sentimental and contrived.
I like it that way, though the arguments in favor of the idea are not merely sentimental and historical.
"Simonsen," meanwhile, depicts an aging loser whose affection for his mistress and daughter proves in the end to be merely sentimental.
The poor are merely sentimental, and very excusably sentimental, if they praise the gentleman for having a ready hand and ready money.
The portrait was merely sentimental and not robustly primitive, a disappointment.
To be overly concerned with the original materials, which are merely sentimental souvenirs of the past, is to fail to see the living building itself.
This is merely sentimental argument.
This inevitably committed him to a view that proved merely sentimental.
This leap backward is the most daring of Pelecanos's many self-reinventions as a writer, running the risk of answering questions best left unanswered or appearing merely sentimental.

3. merely average = jedynie średni merely average

4. merely mediocre = jedynie mierny merely mediocre

5. merely indifferent = jedynie obojętny merely indifferent

(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

(17) derivative, late

Kolokacji: 2

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