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Antonyms for mere

Grammar : Adj
Spell : meer
Phonetic Transcription : mɪər

Definition of mere

Origin :
  • c.1400, "unmixed, pure," from Old French mier "pure" (of gold), "entire, total, complete," and directly from Latin merus "unmixed" (of wine), "pure; bare, naked;" figuratively "true, real, genuine," probably originally "clear, bright," from PIE *mer- "to gleam, glimmer, sparkle" (cf. Old English amerian "to purify," Old Irish emer "not clear," Sanskrit maricih "ray, beam," Greek marmarein "to gleam, glimmer"). Original sense of "nothing less than, absolute" (mid-15c., now only in vestiges such as mere folly) existed for centuries alongside opposite sense of "nothing more than" (1580s, e.g. a mere dream).
  • adj nothing more; absolute
Example sentences :
  • Eudora was a mere infant when Phidias bought her of a poor goatherd in Phelle.
  • Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child
  • These circumstances have led me to suppose that you worship them as mere forms.
  • Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child
  • You can even now return, if you will submit to be a mere sojourner in Athens.
  • Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child
  • Ladies, ladies—this is degenerating into a mere hammer-fest.
  • Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
  • It is a wonder to me they all do not give in, as many are mere skeletons.
  • Extract from : « Explorations in Australia » by John Forrest
  • This was a mere formality and it did not have any deep significance.
  • Extract from : « Ancient Man » by Hendrik Willem van Loon
  • As for Philip, all seemed a mere negation; there was a vacuum where his place had been.
  • Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
  • After all, one grows weary of every thing that is to be had for the mere act of wishing.
  • Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 » by Various
  • Her exhibitions in all other quarters have been mere disguises.
  • Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 » by Various
  • The mere concept takes him into regions in which he feels uneasy.
  • Extract from : « The Conquest of Fear » by Basil King

Synonyms for mere

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