merer

Adjective

mere (comparative merer, superlative merest)

1. Just, only; no more than, pure and simple, neither more nor better than might be expected.
   • The mere thought of pineapple on pizza makes me want to throw up.

   Synonyms:

   alone, bare, simple, only, very

2. (obsolete) Pure, unalloyed .
   • So oft as I this history record, / My heart doth melt with meere compassion[…].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   immaculate, unadulterated, pristine, chaste, cherry, clean, flawless, halal, ideal, kosher

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.1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II...

   Synonyms:

   absolute, thorough, utter, abject, frightful, prize, clean, arrant, categoric, categorical

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