purely

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: B2 — Upper-Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

From Middle English purely, equivalent to pure + -ly.

"'What do you call purely nominal?' — The Lock and Key Library: Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern English, Unknown
His poetry is almost purely sensuous. — From Chaucer to Tennyson: With Twenty-Nine Portraits and Selections from Thirty Authors, Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
The medic says it's purely psychological. — The Colors of Space, Marion Zimmer Bradley

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