- (adv.) Not otherwise than; simply; barely; only.
- (adv.) Purely; unmixedly; absolutely.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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| MLA | Webster's. "merely" 27 May 2011. Web. 20 September 2026. <http://smartdefine.org/merely/definitions/2031911> |