Synonyms of the word mere


MEREBARE - PLAIN - POND - POOL - SIMPLE - SPECIFIED

mere

  • n. (obsolete) the sea.
  • n. (dialectal or literary) A pool; a small, shallow lake or pond; marsh. Also included in place names such…
  • n. boundary, limit; a boundary-marker; boundary-line.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To limit; bound; divide or cause division in.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To set divisions and bounds.
  • v. (cartography) To decide upon the position of a boundary; to position it on a map.
  • adj. (obsolete) famous.
  • adj. (obsolete) Pure, unalloyed.
  • adj. (obsolete) Nothing less than; complete, downright.
  • adj. Just, only; no more than, pure and simple, neither more nor better than might be expected.
  • n. a Maori war-club.

bare

  • adj. Minimal; that is or are just sufficient.
  • adj. Naked, uncovered.
  • adj. Having no supplies.
  • adj. Having no decoration.
  • adj. Having had what usually covers (something) removed.
  • adj. (Britain, slang, not comparable) A lot or lots of.
  • adj. With head uncovered; bareheaded.
  • adj. Without anything to cover up or conceal one's thoughts or actions; open to view; exposed.
  • adj. (figuratively) Mere; without embellishment.
  • adj. Threadbare; much worn.
  • adv. (Britain, slang) Very; significantly.
  • adv. Barely.
  • adv. Without a condom.
  • n. (‘the bare’) the surface, the (bare) skin.
  • n. Surface; body; substance.
  • n. (architecture) That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather.
  • v. (transitive) To uncover; to reveal.
  • v. (obsolete) simple past tense of bear.

plain

  • adj. (now rare, regional) Flat, level.
  • adj. Simple.
  • adj. Obvious.
  • adj. Open.
  • adj. Not unusually beautiful; unattractive.
  • adv. (colloquial) Simply.
  • n. (rare, poetic) A lamentation.
  • v. (reflexive, obsolete) To complain.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive, now rare, poetic) To lament, bewail.
  • n. An expanse of land with relatively low relief.
  • n. A battlefield.
  • n. (obsolete) A plane.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To level; to raze; to make plain or even on the surface.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To make plain or manifest; to explain.

pond

  • n. An inland body of standing water, either natural or man-made, that is smaller than a lake.
  • n. (colloquial) The Atlantic Ocean. Especially in across the pond.
  • v. (transitive) To block the flow of water so that it can escape only through evaporation or seepage; to…
  • v. (transitive) To make into a pond; to collect, as water, in a pond by damming.
  • v. (intransitive) To form a pond; to pool.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To ponder.

pool

  • n. A small and rather deep collection of (usually) fresh water, as one supplied by a spring, or occurring…
  • n. A small body of standing or stagnant water; a puddle.
  • n. A swimming pool.
  • n. A supply of resources.
  • v. (intransitive, of a liquid) to form a pool.
  • n. (uncountable) A game at billiards, in which each of the players stakes a certain sum, the winner taking…
  • n. A cue sport played on a pool table. There are 15 balls, 7 of one colour, 7 of another, and the black ball…
  • n. In rifle shooting, a contest in which each competitor pays a certain sum for every shot he makes, the…
  • n. Any gambling or commercial venture in which several persons join.
  • n. The stake played for in certain games of cards, billiards, etc.; an aggregated stake to which each player…
  • n. A combination of persons contributing money to be used for the purpose of increasing or depressing the…
  • n. (rail transport) A mutual arrangement between competing lines, by which the receipts of all are aggregated,…
  • n. (law) An aggregation of properties or rights, belonging to different people in a community, in a common…
  • v. (transitive) to put together; contribute to a common fund, on the basis of a mutual division of profits…
  • v. (intransitive) to combine or contribute with others, as for a commercial, speculative, or gambling transaction.

simple

  • adj. Uncomplicated; taken by itself, with nothing added.
  • adj. Without ornamentation; plain.
  • adj. Free from duplicity; guileless, innocent, straightforward.
  • adj. Undistinguished in social condition; of no special rank.
  • adj. (now rare) Trivial; insignificant.
  • adj. (now colloquial) Feeble-minded; foolish.
  • adj. (heading, technical) Structurally uncomplicated.
  • adj. (obsolete) Mere; not other than; being only.
  • n. (medicine) A preparation made from one plant, as opposed to something made from more than one plant.
  • n. (obsolete) A term for a physician, derived from the medicinal term above.
  • n. (logic) A simple or atomic proposition.
  • n. (obsolete) Something not mixed or compounded.
  • n. (weaving) A drawloom.
  • n. (weaving) Part of the apparatus for raising the heddles of a drawloom.
  • n. (Roman Catholicism) A feast which is not a double or a semidouble.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive, archaic) To gather simples, i.e., medicinal herbs.

specified

  • adj. Thoroughly explained.
  • v. simple past tense and past participle of specify.

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