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[ UK /mˈi‍ə/ ]
[ US /ˈmɪɹ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. being nothing more than specified
    a mere child
  2. apart from anything else; without additions or modifications
    only the bare facts
    the simple passage of time was enough
    shocked by the mere idea
    the simple truth
NOUN
  1. a small pond of standing water

How To Use mere In A Sentence

  • Having drop-dead gorgeous, private, windowed offices makes it a lot easier to recruit the kinds of superstars that produce ten times as much as the merely brilliant software developers.
  • Is there continuing jubilation, or has it simmered down a lot?
  • Cornwall, the which abbeie Henrie de la Pomerey chasing out the moonks, had fortified against the king, and hearing newes of the kings returne home, died (as it was thought) for méere gréefe and feare. Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (6 of 12) Richard the First
  • Here, human or mouse embryonic stem cells, in vitro representatives of the totipotent inner cell mass blastomeres, are placed into culture.
  • You merely assumed that was the homophone I meant.
  • The value of all this free promotion is incalculable, which is no doubt why so many Republicans are using politics as merely a way to cash in big time as nothing more than entertainers. Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points -- Weiner Roast
  • First, we have in the bottom from which the mere structure of an ovary is deduced, the normal dicarpellary structure, and there is in addition a tendency in excess toward a parietal placentation. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
  • On June 9, the intrepid Curry will settle in behind the big desk of NBC's top-rated morning show, where she'll succeed Meredith Vieira as Matt Lauer's coanchor. The Biz: Ann Curry's New Today Role
  • To academic historians they were ‘mere entertainment’ - just mindless pap for gormless morons.
  • There are three degrees of intimacy between words, of which the first and loosest is expressed by their mere juxtaposition as separate words, the second by their being hyphened, and the third or closest by their being written continuously as one word. Hyphens.
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