Mere
[mɪə] or [mɪr]
Definition
(noun.) a small pond of standing water.
(adj.) being nothing more than specified; 'a mere child' .
Inputed by Edna--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A pool or lake.
(n.) A boundary.
(v. t.) To divide, limit, or bound.
(n.) A mare.
(Superl.) Unmixed; pure; entire; absolute; unqualified.
(Superl.) Only this, and nothing else; such, and no more; simple; bare; as, a mere boy; a mere form.
Typist: Veronica
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Bare, simple, nothing else but.
n. Pool, lake.
Typist: Stanley
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Pure, unmixed, absolute, uninfluenced, unadulterated, unaffected, simple
ANT:Mixed, compound, impure, biased
Editor: Susanna
Definition
adj. unmixed: pure: only this and nothing else: alone: absolute.—adj. Mered (Shak.) only entire.—adv. Mere′ly purely simply: only: thus and no other way: solely.
n. a boundary.—v.t. to limit or bound.—ns. Mere′stead the land within the boundaries of a farm: Mere′stone a stone which marks a boundary.
n. a pool or lake.—Also Meer.
Edited by Lenore
Examples
- What I mean is, Lizzie, that I am a mere impertinent piece of conceit, and you shame me. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- And education is not a mere means to such a life. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It isn't a mere pleasure trip to me, girls, she said impressively, as she scraped her best palette. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- A mere habit in me, sir. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I reassured him on this point, and, as well as I could, I showed him the mere outline of my experience. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Mr. Jobling is buttoned up closer than mere adornment might require. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- What you want me to serve, is nothing, mere nothing. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- As mere school studies, their acquisition has only a technical worth. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- As for Betteredge, consistency of principle and dignity of conduct had become, in his case, mere empty words. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- There is mere spatial redistribution. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- If the atmosphere were composed of oxygen alone, the merest flicker of a match would set the whole world ablaze. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Tall and muscular as I was in form, I must have looked like, what indeed I was, the merest ruffian that ever trod the earth. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- What is to me a means of livelihood is to him the merest hobby of a dilettante. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- At last, I discovered by the merest accident that this man had a wife, to whom he had been married four years, as well as three fine young children. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- My dear Laura, the merest trifles are of importance where Anne Catherick is concerned. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- If he is picked up by the Cretan steamer, and his yacht is now lying at Syra, I have no doubt he will; but it is all the merest chance. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Our minds embrace infinity; the visible mechanism of our being is subject to merest accident. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I had no idea of the lengths to which this would carry him, until the merest accident opened my eyes to it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- The merest awkward country girl, without style, or elegance, and almost without beauty. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- For it was indeed that most respectable saloon, in which Prude and I were making an exhibition of our pretty persons, owing to the merest ignorance. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
Editor: Lucius