Thesaurus: mere

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1. n. A pool or lake.
2. n. A boundary.
3. v. t. To divide, limit, or bound.
4. n. A mare.
5. Superl. Unmixed; pure; entire; absolute; unqualified.
6. Superl. Only this, and nothing else; such, and no more; simple; bare; as, a mere boy; a mere form.
7. adj. being nothing more than specified
8. adj. apart from anything else; without additions or modifications
9. n. a small pond of standing water
10. A pool or lake. Drayton. Tennyson. A boundary. Bacon. To divide, limit, or bound. [Obs.] Which meared her rule with Africa. Spenser. A mare. [Obs.] Chaucer. 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.
11. A pool or lake. Drayton. Tennyson.
12. j:100 n. a small pond of standing water s. being nothing more than specified