Merely means "only." If you say "I was merely trying to help," your efforts were probably not appreciated and you're likely to be stalking off with your nose in the air.
Purely; unmixedly; absolutely.
Adverb
and nothing more; "I was merely asking"; "it is simply a matter of time"; "just a scratch"; "he was only a child"; "hopes that last but a moment"
adv.
Purely; unmixedly; absolutely.
adv.
Not otherwise than; simply; barely; only.
Merely
Ulysses was to force forth his access, Though merely naked.2.
Prize not your life for other ends Than merely to obige your friends.
Purely; unmixedly; absolutely.
Usage Examples
Age merely shows what children we remain.
Another belief of mine that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.
Aristotle taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
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Other Usage ExamplesAmerica is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams.
All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence toward which the intellect is merely passive, and over which the individual will and character have no control.
A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.
A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.
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