English Dictionary

mere

IPA（発音記号）

/mɪə/

形容詞

廃用

Just, only; no more than, pure and simple, neither more nor better than might be expected. / (obsolete) Pure, unalloyed . / (obsolete) Nothing less than; complete, downright .

日本語の意味

ただの、単なる / 単に、ただただ / （旧義）純粋な、混じりけのない

The project's success was a mere stroke of luck, not the result of careful planning.

そのプロジェクトの成功は綿密な計画の結果ではなく、単なる幸運に過ぎませんでした。

意味（1）

Just, only; no more than, pure and simple, neither more nor better than might be expected.

Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; […].

意味（2）

(obsolete) Pure, unalloyed .

So oft as I this history record, / My heart doth melt with meere compassion[…].

意味（3）

(obsolete) Nothing less than; complete, downright .

If every man might have what he would[…]we should have another chaos in an instant, a meer confusion.

merer （ comparative ）

merest （ superlative ）