Instead she merely looked surprised and - could it be - amused.
Source: tatoeba (38075)
Merely
//ˈmɪɹli//
Synonyms for "merely" (79 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (16)
Strong matches (24)
Related words (39)
Related word relations
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Translations
82 translations across 38 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- μόνον adv (only, just, and nothing more)
Arabic
1 entries- بِالْكَاد adv (only, just, and nothing more)
Belarusian
2 entries- про́ста adv (only, just, and nothing more)
- то́лькі adv (only, just, and nothing more)
Catalan
2 entries- merament adv (only, just, and nothing more)
- simplement adv (only, just, and nothing more)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 僅僅 /仅仅 adv (only, just, and nothing more)
- 只不過 /只不过 adv (only, just, and nothing more)
- 只是 adv (only, just, and nothing more)
Czech
1 entries- pouze adv (only, just, and nothing more)
Dutch
2 entries- alleen adv (only, just, and nothing more)
- louter adv (only, just, and nothing more)
Esperanto
1 entries- nur adv (only, just, and nothing more)
Finnish
3 entries- ainoastaan adv (only, just, and nothing more)
- pelkästään adv (only, just, and nothing more)
- vain adv (only, just, and nothing more)
French
3 entries- seulement adv (only, just, and nothing more)
- simplement adv (only, just, and nothing more)
- uniquement adv (only, just, and nothing more)
German
4 entries- bloß adv (only, just, and nothing more)
- lediglich adv (only, just, and nothing more)
- nur adv (only, just, and nothing more)
- schier adv (only, just, and nothing more)
Hebrew
1 entries- רק adv (only, just, and nothing more)
Hungarian
4 entries- csak adv (only, just, and nothing more)
- csupán adv (only, just, and nothing more)
- egyedül adv (only, just, and nothing more)
- mindössze adv (only, just, and nothing more)
Ingrian
2 entries- ikkee adv (only, just, and nothing more)
- vaa adv (only, just, and nothing more)
Italian
4 entries- meramente adv (only, just, and nothing more)
- semplicemente adv (only, just, and nothing more)
- solamente adv (only, just, and nothing more)
- soltanto adv (only, just, and nothing more)
Japanese
3 entries- ただ adv (only, just, and nothing more)
- ばかり adv (only, just, and nothing more)
- 単に adv (only, just, and nothing more)
Kazakh
1 entries- ғана adv (only, just, and nothing more)
Khmer
1 entries- គ្រាន់តែ adv (only, just, and nothing more)
Korean
3 entries- 그저 adv (only, just, and nothing more)
- 단지 adv (only, just, and nothing more)
- 한낱 adv (only, just, and nothing more)
Latin
2 entries- modo adv (only, just, and nothing more)
- sōlum adv (only, just, and nothing more)
Lower Sorbian
1 entries- jano adv (only, just, and nothing more)
Malagasy
1 entries- fotsiny adv (only, just, and nothing more)
Navajo
1 entries- tʼóó adv (only, just, and nothing more)
Nyunga
1 entries- arda adv (only, just, and nothing more)
Ojibwe
1 entries- eta adv (only, just, and nothing more)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- blooss adv (only, just, and nothing more)
Polish
4 entries- ino adv (only, just, and nothing more)
- jedynie adv (only, just, and nothing more)
- jeno adv (only, just, and nothing more)
- tylko adv (only, just, and nothing more)
Portuguese
2 entries- meramente adv (only, just, and nothing more)
- somente adv (only, just, and nothing more)
Romanian
2 entries- abia adv (only, just, and nothing more)
- doar adv (only, just, and nothing more)
Russian
4 entries- всего́-на́всего adv (only, just, and nothing more)
- лишь adv (only, just, and nothing more)
- про́сто adv (only, just, and nothing more)
- то́лько adv (only, just, and nothing more)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- jedino adv (only, just, and nothing more)
- prosto adv (only, just, and nothing more)
Spanish
4 entries- meramente adv (only, just, and nothing more)
- mere (disused) adv (only, just, and nothing more)
- puramente adv (only, just, and nothing more)
- solamente adv (only, just, and nothing more)
Swedish
1 entries- bara adv (only, just, and nothing more)
Turkish
2 entries- sadece adv (only, just, and nothing more)
- yalnızca adv (only, just, and nothing more)
Ukrainian
3 entries- лише́ adv (only, just, and nothing more)
- про́сто adv (only, just, and nothing more)
- ті́льки adv (only, just, and nothing more)
Vietnamese
2 entries- chỉ adv (only, just, and nothing more)
- đơn thuần adv (only, just, and nothing more)
Walloon
3 entries- djusse adv (only, just, and nothing more)
- fok adv (only, just, and nothing more)
- seulmint adv (only, just, and nothing more)
ǃXóõ
1 entries- ǁʻáa adv (only, just, and nothing more)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
You should never look down on a person merely because he is poor.
Source: tatoeba (40846)
They are merely different.
Source: tatoeba (40856)
Merely to breathe does not mean to live.
Source: tatoeba (40858)
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