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Arthur Conan Doyle was entranced by the notion of a brilliant detective who can deduce everything a stranger has been up to from the merest clue, and yet can't have a trusting relationship with his closest friend.
Rafael Yglesias

Meaning of "merest" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF MEREST

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MEREST

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Merest is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MEREST

mercy seat
merdivorous
mere
mered
Meredith
merely
merengue
mereological
mereology
meresman
merestone
meretricious
meretriciously
meretriciousness
merfolk
merganser
merge
mergee
mergence
merger

WORDS THAT END LIKE MEREST

accrued interest
compound interest
controlling interest
declare an interest
disinterest
Everest
forest
high-interest
human interest
insurable interest
interest
life interest
Mount Everest
noninterest
self-interest
simple interest
Site of Special Scientific Interest
uninterest
unity of interest
utterest
vested interest

Synonyms and antonyms of merest in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «MEREST»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «merest» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of merest

Translation of «merest» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MEREST

Find out the translation of merest to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of merest from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «merest» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

微薄
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

mero
570 millions of speakers

English

merest
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

झील
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

اعتمد الناس
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Малейший
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

merest
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

merest
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

moindre
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Merest
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

See
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ほんの
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

가장 단순한
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Merest
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

merest
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

merest
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मेरस्ट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

en az olan
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

merest
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

merest
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

найменший
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

merest
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

merest
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Lake
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

liten grad
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

reneste
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of merest

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MEREST»

The term «merest» is normally little used and occupies the 110.690 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MEREST» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «merest» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «merest» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about merest

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3 QUOTES WITH «MEREST»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word merest.
1
Richard Burton
How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life, religiously preserve the merest trifles.
2
Friedrich Schiller
There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.
3
Rafael Yglesias
Arthur Conan Doyle was entranced by the notion of a brilliant detective who can deduce everything a stranger has been up to from the merest clue, and yet can't have a trusting relationship with his closest friend.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MEREST»

Discover the use of merest in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to merest and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Biennial Report of the State Treasurer of the State of ...
Baxter I. N. Van Winkle J. E Smith M.O.and W.S. Moore - George W.Stimson Rebecca Vaughn A.J. Patton Thomas J. Elliott Heudereon Harer merest on note uterest on note merest on note merest on note n terest ou note uterest on note merest ...
Oregon. Treasury Dept, 1891
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Biennial Report of the State Treasurer
... Rebecca Vanghn A.J. Patton Thomas J. Elliott Henderson llarer uterest on note merest on note merest on note uterest on note uterest on note uterest on note uterest on note merest on note uterest on note merest on note u lei est on note ...
Oregon. Treasury Dept, 1897
3
A Rubric of the Common Law: Being a Short Digest of the ...
Merest was out shooting on his own manor, when Harvey, a banker, a magistrate, and a M.P. drove up in his carriage, and vowed he would join Merest's party. Merest gave him distinct notice not to do so; but Harvey fired several times on ...
Sir Charles George Walpole, Sydney Hastings, 1880
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Current Trends in Diachronic Semantics and Pragmatics
Many of the SSN constructions in which merest is used are grammaticalized, too, the merest hint of being the most common of them (cf. also glimmer, shred, thread in the concordance lines above). The definite article in these uses is triggered ...
Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen, Jacqueline Visconti, 2009
5
Leeward Islands Magistrates Acts: With Appendix, Containing ...
As an instance of where the Court refused to disturb the verdict of a Jury giving exemplary damages, the case of Merest v. Harvey (5 Taunton, p. 443) may be noticed. There, Merest, the plaintiff, was out shooting on his own manor, when ...
Leeward Islands. Legislative Council, Charles George Walpole, 1892
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The Law Times Reports: Containing All the Cases Argued and ...
U. That by reason of the premises you the said James John Merest have been orruptly and fcimoniacally pro* moted and presented to the said vicarage and parish church. 12. That you the said James John Merest were on the 19th Feb. last ...
‎1870
7
The Law Journal for the Year 1832-1949: Comprising Reports ...
That you, the said James John Merest, are and have been for two years last past, a clerk in holy orders of the said Church of England. 4 That by deed, dated the 29th day of February, 1868, the Rev. Henry O'Donnel, clerk, conveyed the ...
‎1870
8
Sporting Magazine
Adm. Wilson's (Wyatt's) wt. b. a. Jemima, beat Mr. Upcher's (Merest's) blu. b. a. Madge. 1 g. and lb. Mr. Upcher's (Merest's) blk. p. Nelson, beat Mr. Corsellis's d. p. Come-it. 1 g. and lb. , Mr. Redhead's Lucy, agst Mr, Upcher's (Merest's). Mara.
‎1810
9
National Income and Product Accounts of the U. S.: 1959-88
3 3 .4 5 5 .4 3 .6 7 12 12 Corporations Merest paid, IRS Line 1974 1975 1 1976 1977 1 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1965 1986 1987 1988 1 132.9 129.3 135.1 152.9 192.4 261.3 344.6 4775 515.0 475.1 535.8 568.6 573.0 590.0  ...
DIANE Publishing Company, 1995
10
Song of the Greys
The whole brief of this 'point' is to create a 'world' that is maximally different to itself as a point and so let's set about this in logical steps, the merest steps of logical progression possible at each and every stage. What, then, defines the contours ...
Nigel Kerner, 1998

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MEREST»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term merest is used in the context of the following news items.
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Box-office Spieth a Major threat to Rory's ambition
His ball striking on the range was very good, but these days the merest whiff of pressure seems to cripple his game. It finally feels like it's over ... «Irish Independent, Jul 15»
2
Halloween in July
I go into his workshop, after having scoured the museum example of entropy that is my tool pile and come up with naught, with only the merest ... «Pittsburg Morning Sun, Jul 15»
3
“My Little Cracker”: a Donald Trump Story
It may signify by only the merest crumb of revelation but it reminds us that there is more to this huckster-showman than we've been shown; there ... «Patheos, Jul 15»
4
Stockpile good habits, not water
Back then, people, especially those in urban areas, responded to the merest of hints that water may strike their houses and soon hoarded dry ... «Bangkok Post, Jul 15»
5
Beijing's Maritime Silk Road Passes Through Islamabad
In May 2011, when Pakistan protested that the United States had not given it the merest hint of the impending clandestine operation to kill ... «YaleGlobal Online, Jul 15»
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The world's 10 best high-speed travel experiences
... it's high gear all the way to the town of Haiku at close to sea level – more than 35 kilometres with just the merest dab on the pedals required. «Stuff.co.nz, Jul 15»
7
League of Legend's redesigned Gangplank gets a brand new …
Where he sails, death and ruin follow, and such is his infamy and reputation that the merest sight of his black sails on the horizon causes panic ... «Lazygamer, Jul 15»
8
Slow down, you move too fast
And be careful on those machines. Unlike the animals who flee at the merest sight or sound of us, those little, quietly struggling flowers have no ... «Price Sun Advocate, Jul 15»
9
Get a kick out of Phuket
I know that the merest hint of hangover could scupper my chances in the ring. Back at Tiger Muay Thai, it is agreed that my spar partner, Tup, ... «Independent Online, Jul 15»
10
Beijing's Maritime Silk Road Passes Through Islamabad – Analysis
In May 2011, when Pakistan protested that the United States had not given it the merest hint of the impending clandestine operation to kill ... «Eurasia Review, Jul 15»

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