mere
adjective
[ mɪə ]
• used to emphasize how small or insignificant someone or something is.
• "questions that cannot be answered by mere mortals"
Similar:
trifling,
meagre,
bare,
trivial,
paltry,
basic,
scant,
scanty,
skimpy,
minimal,
slender,
no more than,
just,
only,
Origin:
late Middle English (in the senses ‘pure’ and ‘sheer, downright’): from Latin merus ‘undiluted’.
mere
noun
• a lake or pond.
• "the stream widens into a mere where hundreds of geese gather"
Origin:
Old English, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch meer ‘lake’ and German Meer ‘sea’, from an Indo-European root shared by Russian more and Latin mare .
mere
noun
• a Maori war club, especially one made of greenstone.
Origin:
Maori.
