Mere

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  • adjective. Being nothing more than what is specified.
  • adjective. Considered apart from anything else.
  • adjective. Small; slight.
  • adjective. Pure; unadulterated.
  • noun. A small lake, pond, or marsh.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A pool; a small lake. or pond.
  • Absolutely; wholly.
  • Famous.
  • noun. A boundary; boundary-line.
  • noun. A balk or furrow serving as a boundary- or dividing-line in a common field; also, a boundary-stone; a merestone.
  • noun. A private carriage-road.
  • noun. A measure of 29 or 31 yards in the Peak of Derbyshire in England.
  • Pure; sheer; unmixed.
  • Absolute; unqualified; utter; whole; in the fullest sense.
  • Sheer; simple; nothing but (the thing mentioned); only: as, it is mere folly to do so; this is the merest trash.
  • noun. A Middle English form of mare.
  • noun. In the reticulum or supporting skeleton of the extinct silicious sponges of the family Dictyospongidæ, one of the divisions or meshes produced by the intersection of the primary vertical and horizontal spicular bundles. It is subdivided by the spicules of. subordinate rank into lesser areas or quadrangles—dimeres, tetrameres, hexameres.
  • noun. A Maori war-club; a casse-tête, or war-ax, from 12 to 18 inches in length, made of any suitable hard material, as stone, hard wood, or whalebone. Outside of New Zealand the word is only known as the name of a little trinket of greenstone made in imitation of the New Zealand weapon in miniature, mounted in gold or silver, and used as a brooch, locket, ear-ring, or other article of jewelry.
  • To limit; bound; divide or cause division in.
  • To set divisions and bounds.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A pool or lake.
  • noun. A boundary.
  • transitive verb. To divide, limit, or bound.
  • noun. A mare.
  • adjective. Unmixed; pure; entire; absolute; unqualified.
  • adjective. Only this, and nothing else; such, and no more; simple; bare
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. the sea
  • noun. a pool; a small lake or pond; marsh
  • adjective. famous.
  • noun. boundary, limit; a boundary-marker; boundary-line
  • verb. To limit; bound; divide or cause division in.
  • verb. To set divisions and bounds.
  • noun. a Maori war-club
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. being nothing more than specified
  • noun. a small pond of standing water
  • adjective. apart from anything else; without additions or modifications
  • Word Usage
    "The manner in which Sabbatarians emphasize the phrase “My Sabbath,” and “My holy day,” is well calculated to mislead the unsuspecting, but those who are schooled in biblical literature will regard it as mere _rant_, _cheap theology_, _mere display_!"
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    Equivalent
    plain  specified  
    Form
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    pond  pool  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bombardier  Chevalier  Clear  Deere  Fear  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    'yo  Amie  Cher  Chere  Cherie  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    absolute  absolute  austere  bald  bare