Mere means pure and simple, nothing more and nothing less. If the mere mention of someone's name makes you happy, then just hearing his name — and that alone — is enough to make you smile. Mere can have a little irony attached.
The word marred can be traced back to the Old English word merran, meaning “to waste or spoil.” Marred often carries with it the sense of spoiling perfection. It can be a flaw that makes something outstanding less than perfect, such as a movie star's face marred by a scar or a career marred by controversy.
nonmarring (not comparable) (of a tool) Not causing damage.
Merely means "only." If you say "I was merely trying to help," your efforts were probably not appreciated and you're likely to be stalking off with your nose in the air. Merely comes from the Latin merus, ("undiluted").
- I merely wanted to see it.
- The meeting was merely an exercise in damage limitation.
- Michael is now merely a good friend.
- He is merely a working machine.
- They are merely exercising their right to free speech.
- The player insists that he merely took a cold remedy and not a banned substance.
DIRK is a valid scrabble word.
deke DEEK verb. : to fake an opponent out of position (as in ice hockey) Examples: "[Carl Yastrzemski] led the league in (outfield) assists seven times.
(Entry 1 of 2) 1 : a platform in a ship serving usually as a structural element and forming the floor for its compartments. 2 : something resembling the deck of a ship: such as. a : a story or tier of a building (such as a sports stadium) the upper deck.
Marred Synonyms - WordHippo
Thesaurus.
What is another word for marred?
| blemished | disfigured |
|---|
| smudged | soiled |
| spoiltUK | spoiledUS |
| stained | tainted |
| tarnished | damaged |
The plural form of mar is mars.
Quality of being artistic.
Historicity is the historical actuality of persons and events, meaning the quality of being part of history as opposed to being a historical myth, legend, or fiction. Historicity denotes historical actuality, authenticity, factuality and focuses on the true value of knowledge claims about the past.
solicitous • suh-LIS-uh-tus • adjective. 1 : showing attentive care or protectiveness : manifesting or expressing solicitude 2 : full of concern or fears : apprehensive 3 : meticulously careful 4 : full of desire : eager.
: a participle that typically expresses present action in relation to the time expressed by the finite verb in its clause and that in English is formed with the suffix -ing and is used in the formation of the progressive tenses.
