mercurial, adj. 1. active, lively, sprightly, vivacious, high-spirited, energetic, electric, charged; dynamic, animated, enthused, enthusiastic, ebullient, irrepressible, spirited.
2. changeable, variable, flightly, inconstant, volatile, quicksilver; fickle, capricious, erratic, spasmodic, irregular; irresolute, undecided, blowing hot and cold, wavering, fluctuating, vacillating, unsteady, unstable; impulsive, impetuous, hasty, quick, rash.
mercury, n. 1. quicksilver.
2. messenger, herald, envoy, runner, courier.
mercy, n. forgiveness, clemency, quarter, indulgence, pardon, grace; mercifulness; big-heartedness, large-heartedness, magnanimity, magnanimousness, generosity, generousness, liberality, liberalness; compassion, compassionateness, Latin, misericordia, pity, sympathy; patience, forbearance, tolerance, understanding; commiseration, condolence, condolement, ruthfulness; humaneness, tenderness, tender-heartedness, soft-heartedness; leniency, lenity, sparingness, gentleness, mildness, softness, easiness; benignancy, benevolence, humanity, humanitarianism, charitableness, charity, beneficence; benignity, kindness, kindliness, kindheartedness; consideration, considerateness, thoughtfulness, thought, concern, care.
mere adj. 1. only, utter, complete, absolute; bare. 2. ordinary, common, commonplace, insignificant, nugatory; slight, inappreciable, petty, trifling, niggling, piddling, paltry.
merely, adv. simply, just, only, solely; purely, utterly, completely, entirely, absolutely; but, nothing but, no more than, at most; barely, hardly, scarcely, Dial. scantly, only just.
meretricious, adj. 1. gaudy, garish, flashy, SI. flash, showy, bedizened, flaunting; loud, bold, painted, hard, Inf. honky-tonk; tawdry, cheap, dime-store, tinselly, brummagem, gimcrack, trumpery, trashy, Inf. chintzy, Inf. tacky, SI. rinky-dink; tasteless, in bad taste, indelicate, crude, vulgar.
2. specious, bogus, sham, counterfeit, spurious, pseudo, mock, artificial; false, fraudulent, deceitful, deceptive, hollow, insincere; deceiving, misleading, evasive, elusive, dodgy, shifty, slippery.
3. whorish, trollopy, licentious, dissolute, lewd, indecent, unchaste.
merge, v. 1. unite, unify, join, combine, amalgamate, consolidate; incorporate, syndicate, confederate, federate, centralize, concentrate; associate, coalesce, league, club, team up; pool, group or mass together, put or lump together, band or herd together, draw or pull together, join forces.
2. Often
merge in or
into blend, combine, mix, commix, admix, intermix, conglomerate; commingle, mingle, intermingle, interlard, interwine, interweave; homogenize, hybridize, meld, Brit. Dial, mell; bond, fuse, weld, glue, inosculate, cement, cohere, agglutinate, stick together.
3. Often
merge in or
into run into, melt into, become absorbed by, become a part of, become assimilated by, be swallowed up by; become lost in, be buried in, become embedded or enveloped in, become immersed or immerged or submerged in, disappear; grow together, ankylose, become one with, lose one's indentity or individuality.
