not merely

phrase

—used to say that one thing is true and that another thing is also true

He was not merely a great baseball player, he was also a great person.

Examples of not merely in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Put your resources toward what feels meaningful, not merely sensible. — Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 2 Oct. 2026

These are ways of memorializing not merely dead friends but often also their long days of dying in a time when AIDS was a death sentence. — Colm Tóibín, Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2026

The emerging argument was not merely that Americans need more people in the trades. — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2026

With this model, the core idea is that a student should not merely leave school knowing how to obtain a job. — Ayush Gupta, Forbes.com, 28 Sep. 2026

Rhymes for not merely

• cavalierly
• austerely
• severely
• sincerely
• clearly
• dearly
• nearly
• queerly
• yearly