"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
1. merely adequate = jedynie odpowiedni merely adequate
  • It was just barely habitable, with the oxygen level merely adequate.
  • How does that look compared with actually getting your hands dirty while working in merely adequate quarters and being paid the "industry standard"?
  • The food, he emphasized, has been merely adequate.
  • I, as a historian, am merely adequate, certainly not outstanding.
  • For want of a control group the study is "merely adequate" as social science, Carol Tavris said here last year.
  • After my merely adequate reading, she inquired, "May I ask how old you are?"
  • Browning described it as "one of those games that starts out way too ambitious, and ends up merely adequate."
  • His speech, unlike that of the merely adequate supporting cast, feels lived rather than learned.
  • While those specifications seem impressive compared with other computers, they are merely adequate for video production work.
  • She had become not merely adequate but expert at both specialties and was well on her way to becoming a middling-fair pilot.
2. merely competent = jedynie kompetentny merely competent
(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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