Enter a clue or pattern or both:

The Clue

Plain (4 letter answer)

The Answer

MERE

Tags


Notes

The answer MERE is seen frequently, appearing about once every 60 puzzles.

Related Clues

Bare
Only
Paltry
Petty
Piddling
Sheer
Simple
Slight
Trifling
Trivial
Unalloyed
Adjective for a pittance
Adjective for a sou
Adjective for a trifle
An antonym for abundant
French parent
Like a pittance
Mademoiselle's mother
Mother, in Montmartre
Pierre's mother
Plain and simple
Poetic pond
Pond, in poesy
Pond, to a poet
Pool, in poetry
Pure and simple
Scantily sufficient
Scarcely enough
Word for a bagatelle
Exclusive of anything else
No more than
Nothing more than
Word before pittance
Neither more nor less

Definition

MERE as a noun:

1. a small pond of standing water

MERE as an adjective:

1. being nothing more than specified; "a mere child"
2. (bare, mere, simple) = apart from anything else; without additions or modifications; "only the bare facts"; "shocked by the mere idea"; "the simple passage of time was enough"; "the simple truth"