Light and Mere

Light

Light adjective - Less plentiful than what is normal, necessary, or desirable.
Usage example: traffic on the highway seems to be very light today

Mere and light are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Mere" instead an adjective "Light".

Mere

Mere adjective - Being this and no more.

Light and mere are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Light" instead an adjective "Mere".

Nearby Word: merely

Both words in one sentence

  • Literature / The Silmarillion Ungoliant, the horrific spider-shaped thing that crawled from the Void, devours all light and belches out webs of shadow darker-than-dark, shadows that are more than mere absence of light.
  • Hades: Who is this Kaz you are speaking about, and you are not fighting a mere mortal human, you are fighting a goddess of light.
  • Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better At a mere 3 km/s — one thousandth of a percent of light speed — any object contains as much energy as an equivalent mass of TNT.
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