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adverb
1.
And nothing more.  Synonyms: but, just, merely, simply.  "It is simply a matter of time" , "Just a scratch" , "He was only a child" , "Hopes that last but a moment"
2.
Without any others being included or involved.  Synonyms: alone, entirely, exclusively, solely.  "A school devoted entirely to the needs of problem children" , "He works for Mr. Smith exclusively" , "Did it solely for money" , "The burden of proof rests on the prosecution alone" , "A privilege granted only to him"
3.
With nevertheless the final result.  "We won only to lose again in the next round"
4.
In the final outcome.
5.
Except that.
6.
Never except when.  Synonyms: only if, only when.
7.
As recently as.
adjective
1.
Being the only one; single and isolated from others.  Synonyms: lone, lonesome, sole, solitary.  "A lonesome pine" , "An only child" , "The sole heir" , "The sole example" , "A solitary instance of cowardice" , "A solitary speck in the sky"
2.
Exclusive of anyone or anything else.  Synonym: alone.  "Cannot live by bread alone" , "I'll have this car and this car only"



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"Only" Quotes from Famous Books



... see Elsa till she was quite close to him, and even then he could only vaguely distinguish the quaint contour of her wide-sleeved shift and of her ...
— A Bride of the Plains • Baroness Emmuska Orczy
... again when he held up his arms. All the creatures about the place were clean and fearless, quite unlike their relations elsewhere; and Tom begged to be taught how to make all the pigs and cows and poultry in our village tame, at which the farmer only gave one ...
— Tom Brown's Schooldays • Thomas Hughes
... aimlessly with nothing to do, nowhere to go, no one to speak to. I've even begun to give up reading novels, because they make me so jealous. It's all wrong, Alice. It's bad and unhealthy. It puts mutinous thoughts into my head. Honestly, the only way in which I can get the sort of thrill that I ought to have now, if ever I am to thrill at all, is in making wild plans of escape, so wild and so naughty that I don't think I'd better write about them, even to ...
— Who Cares? • Cosmo Hamilton
... what each brought with him. It is because art adds something new to our emotional experience, something that comes not from human life but from pure form, that it stirs us so deeply and so mysteriously. But that, for many, art not only adds something new, but seems to transmute and enrich the old, is certain ...
— Art • Clive Bell
... her robe, a tartan sheen, Till half a leg was scrimply seen; An' such a leg! my bonie Jean Could only peer it; Sae straught, sae taper, tight an' clean— Nane else came ...
— Poems And Songs Of Robert Burns • Robert Burns


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