mere

Converse of object

fluctuate: Two of these sites are fluctuating meres while the third is a man-made pond.

Modifies a noun

• mortal: Pity us mere mortals that have to rely on public transport!
• coincidence: Its traditional identification as Camelot could hardly be a mere coincidence; here, surely, is the site of King Arthur's court.
• handful: Maybe no more than a mere handful of times each day in Google.
• formality: That signature process should have been a mere formality.
• existence: The mere existence of earlier registrations which you may feel are analogous to your case actually proves nothing.
• fact: However, the mere facts of history never really mattered to Voltaire.

Modifying Another Word

• not: They are not mere statistics; they are real people, sick people.
• now: All their dreams of their children achieving a status in society that was denied to the parents are now mere memories.
• n't: But the price for you was n't mere gold or silver.
• never: However, the Word is never mere letters on a page, which is what it has been reduced to by many Protestants.
• about: It should not be about mere attention to rank.
• indeed: Now Higgs has codified the modern thinking that executives are indeed mere managers and boards should comprise a majority of non-executives.