mere

Adjective

• 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
    

• being nothing more than specified
  • a mere child
    

Noun

• a small pond of standing water

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  bare(a) , mere(a) , simple(a)