"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 incidental = jedynie drobiazg merely incidental
2. merely coincidental = jedynie przypadkowy merely coincidental
  • It was impossible that he could remember the incident - and yet his reaction to Ramsey had been too intense to be merely coincidental.
  • Because breast cancer is so common in the general population, such cases could have been merely coincidental.
  • Mind you, we were not so naive as to believe that such troubles were merely coincidental.
  • Any new instances of the three flashing red lights error are merely coincidental," it added.
  • It is possible after all, that these phenomena are merely coincidental.
  • The number 1118 had a strange, but merely coincidental, attraction to him, as proved by the next election in 1871.
  • Whether these parallels are meaningful or merely coincidental is yet another mystery confronting science.
  • The timing, they contend, was not merely coincidental.
  • Cicero saw these events as merely coincidental; only the credulous could think them ominous.
  • According to Huxley, the fact that all the members of the club gained distinction within science was merely coincidental.
3. merely accidental = jedynie przypadkowy merely accidental
(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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