merely

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈmɪəli/
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• Canada, General-American: /ˈmɪɹli/
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• Australian: /ˈmɪəli/
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• New-Zealand: /ˈmiəli/
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• rhymes with -ɪə(ɹ)li
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• CMU ARPABET: M IH1 R L IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English mereli, equivalent to mere + -ly.

79 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: بِالْكَاد (bi-l-kād) — only, just, and nothing more
• Belarusian: то́лькі (tólʹki) — only, just, and nothing more
• Belarusian: про́ста (prósta) — only, just, and nothing more
• Catalan: merament — only, just, and nothing more
• Catalan: simplement — only, just, and nothing more
• Chinese Mandarin: 只是 (zhǐshì) — only, just, and nothing more
• Chinese Mandarin: 只不過 /只不过 (zhǐbuguò) — only, just, and nothing more
• Chinese Mandarin: 僅僅 /仅仅 (jǐnjǐn) — only, just, and nothing more
• Czech: pouze — only, just, and nothing more
• Dutch: alleen — only, just, and nothing more
• Dutch: louter — only, just, and nothing more
• Esperanto: nur — only, just, and nothing more
• Finnish: vain — only, just, and nothing more
• Finnish: ainoastaan — only, just, and nothing more
• Finnish: pelkästään — only, just, and nothing more
• French: simplement — only, just, and nothing more
• French: uniquement — only, just, and nothing more
• French: seulement — only, just, and nothing more
• German: bloß — only, just, and nothing more
• German: lediglich — only, just, and nothing more
• German: nur — only, just, and nothing more
• German: schier — only, just, and nothing more
• Ancient Greek: μόνον (mónon) — only, just, and nothing more
• Hebrew: רק (rak) — only, just, and nothing more
• Hungarian: csak — only, just, and nothing more
• Hungarian: csupán — only, just, and nothing more
• Hungarian: pusztán — only, just, and nothing more
• Hungarian: mindössze — only, just, and nothing more
• Hungarian: egyedül — only, just, and nothing more
• Ingrian: vaa — only, just, and nothing more
• Ingrian: ikkee — only, just, and nothing more
• Italian: soltanto — only, just, and nothing more
• Italian: solamente — only, just, and nothing more
• Italian: meramente — only, just, and nothing more
• Italian: semplicemente — only, just, and nothing more
• Japanese: 単に (tanni) — only, just, and nothing more
• Japanese: ばかり (bakari) — only, just, and nothing more
• Japanese: ただ (tada) — only, just, and nothing more
• Kazakh: ғана (ğana) — only, just, and nothing more
• Khmer: គ្រាន់តែ (kroan tae) — only, just, and nothing more
• Korean: 한낱 (hannat) — only, just, and nothing more
• Korean: 그저 (geujeo) — only, just, and nothing more
• Korean: 단지 (danji) — only, just, and nothing more
• Latin: sōlum — only, just, and nothing more
• Latin: modo — only, just, and nothing more
• Malagasy: fotsiny — only, just, and nothing more
• Navajo: tʼóó — only, just, and nothing more
• Nyunga: arda — only, just, and nothing more
• Ojibwe: eta — only, just, and nothing more
• Plautdietsch: blooss — only, just, and nothing more
• Polish: tylko — only, just, and nothing more
• Polish: jedynie — only, just, and nothing more
• Polish: jeno — only, just, and nothing more
• Polish: ino — only, just, and nothing more
• Portuguese: meramente — only, just, and nothing more
• Portuguese: somente — only, just, and nothing more
• Romanian: doar — only, just, and nothing more
• Romanian: abia — only, just, and nothing more
• Russian: то́лько (tólʹko) — only, just, and nothing more
• Russian: про́сто (prósto) — only, just, and nothing more
• Russian: лишь (lišʹ) — only, just, and nothing more
• Russian: всего́-на́всего (vsevó-návsevo) — only, just, and nothing more
• Serbo-Croatian: prosto — only, just, and nothing more
• Serbo-Croatian: jedino — only, just, and nothing more
• Lower Sorbian: jano — only, just, and nothing more
• Spanish: meramente — only, just, and nothing more
• Spanish: mere — only, just, and nothing more
• Swedish: bara — only, just, and nothing more
• Turkish: sadece — only, just, and nothing more
• Turkish: yalnızca — only, just, and nothing more
• Ukrainian: лише́ (lyšé) — only, just, and nothing more
• Ukrainian: ті́льки (tílʹky) — only, just, and nothing more
• Ukrainian: про́сто (prósto) — only, just, and nothing more
• Vietnamese: chỉ — only, just, and nothing more
• Vietnamese: đơn thuần — only, just, and nothing more
• Walloon: djusse — only, just, and nothing more
• Walloon: fok — only, just, and nothing more
• Walloon: seulmint — only, just, and nothing more
• ǃXóõ: ǁʻáa — only, just, and nothing more