English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From mere + -ly.
Pronunciation[edit]
merely (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Wholly, entirely. [16th-20th c.]
- 1644, John Milton, Aeropagitica:
- It is not forgot, since the acute and distinct Arminius was perverted meerly by the perusing of a namelesse discourse writt'n at Delf, which at first he took in hand to confute.
- (focus) Without any other reason etc.; only, just, and nothing more. [from 16th c.]
Translations[edit]
only, just, and nothing more
- Arabic: بالكاد (ar) (bi-'l-kād)
- Belarusian: толькі (be) (tólʹki), проста (be) (prósta)
- Catalan: merament (ca), simplement (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 只是 (cmn) (zhǐshì)
- Czech: pouze (cs)
- Dutch: alleen (nl), louter (nl)
- Finnish: vain (fi), ainoastaan (fi), pelkästään (fi)
- French: simplement (fr), uniquement (fr), seulement (fr)
- German: lediglich (de), nur (de)
- Hungarian: csak (hu), csupán (hu)
- Italian: soltanto (it), solamente (it), meramente (it), semplicemente (it)
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- Japanese: 単に (ja) (たんに, tanni), ばかり (ja) (bakari), ただ (ja) (tada)
- Khmer: គ្រាន់តែ (km) (kroan tae)
- Latin: sōlum (la)
- Navajo: tʼóó (nv)
- Polish: tylko (pl)
- Portuguese: meramente (pt), somente (pt)
- Romanian: doar (ro), abia (ro)
- Russian: только (ru) (tólʹko), просто (ru) (prósto), лишь (ru) (lišʹ), всего-навсего (ru) (vsevó-návsevo)
- Serbo-Croatian: prosto (sh), jedino (sh)
- Spanish: meramente (es), sólo (es), solamente (es), uno y nada más
- Ukrainian: лише (uk) (lyšé), тільки (uk) (tílʹky), просто (uk) (prósto)
- ǃXóõ: ǁʻáa
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