 8 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
mere
adjective
1: being nothing more than specified; "a mere child" [syn: {mere(a)}]
2: apart from anything else; without additions or
modifications; "only the bare facts"; "shocked by the mere
idea"; "the simple passage of time was enough"; "the
simple truth" [syn: {bare(a)}, {mere(a)}, {simple(a)}]
noun: a small pond of standing water
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mere \Mere\, noun
A mare. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mere \Mere\ (m[=e]r), adjective [Superl. {Merest}. The comparative is
rarely or never used.] [L. merus.]
1. Unmixed; pure; entire; absolute; unqualified.
Then entered they the mere, main sea. --Chapman.
The sorrows of this world would be mere and unmixed.
--Jer. Taylor.
2. Only this, and nothing else; such, and no more; simple;
bare; as, a mere boy; a mere form.
From mere success nothing can be concluded in favor
of any nation. --Atterbury.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
-mere \-mere\ [Gr. ? part.]
A combining form meaning part, portion; as, blastomere,
epimere.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mere \Mere\ (m[=e]r), noun [Written also mar.] [OE. mere, AS. mere
mere, sea; akin to D. meer lake, OS. meri sea, OHG. meri,
mari, G. meer, Icel. marr, Goth. marei, Russ. more, W. mor,
Ir. & Gael. muir, L. mare, and perh. to L. mori to die, and
meaning originally, that which is dead, a waste. Cf.
{Mortal}, {Marine}, {Marsh}, {Mermaid}, {Moor}.]
A pool or lake. --Drayton. --Tennyson.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mere \Mere\, noun [Written also meer and mear.] [AS. gem[=ae]re.
[root]269.]
A boundary. --Bacon.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mere \Mere\ (m[=e]r), verb (used with an object)
To divide, limit, or bound. [Obs.]
Which meared her rule with Africa. --Spenser.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
39 Moby Thesaurus words for "mere":
absolute, austere, bare, basic, chaste, elementary, essential,
fundamental, homely, homespun, homogeneous, indivisible,
irreducible, just, monolithic, of a piece, only, plain, primal,
primary, pure, pure and simple, scant, severe, sheer, simon-pure,
simple, single, spare, stark, unadorned, uncluttered,
undifferenced, undifferentiated, undiluted, unenhanced, uniform,
unmitigated, unmixed
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