English Explanatory Dictionary

more or less

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adv
  1. Approximately.
  2. Almost.
  3. To varying extents, across instances; to an extent that varies among cases.

Pronunciation

/mɔɹ ɔɹ lɛs/ en-us-more-or-less.ogg LL-Q1860 (eng)-Qwertygiy-more or less.wav

Word forms

more or less more-or-less

Synonyms

-ish about all but almost approaching around by and large circa close close to essentially for all practical purposes fornigh give or take imprecisely just about kind of loosely more or less nearly near nearabout nigh on odd or so plus or minus roundly roughly say some -some sort of thereabout virtually well-nigh ± as good as as near as makes no difference near as damn it next to nigh nighwhat not quite practically pretty much tantamount to

Translations

Albanian: pak a shumë Bulgarian: малко или много Chinese Mandarin: 幾乎 /几乎 Chinese Mandarin: 差點 /差点 Chinese Mandarin: 差一點 /差一点 Chinese Mandarin: 差不多 Danish: mere eller mindre Danish: næsten Esperanto: pli aŭ malpli Finnish: lähes Finnish: enemmän tai vähemmän French: plus ou moins French: presque Galician: case Georgian: ასე თუ ისე German: mehr oder weniger German: fast Greek: σχεδόν Hungarian: félig-meddig Icelandic: meira eða minna Italian: quasi Japanese: ほとんど Norwegian Bokmål: mer eller mindre Norwegian Nynorsk: meir eller mindre Polish: prawie Polish: prawie że Portuguese: quase Russian: бо́лее и́ли ме́нее Russian: бо́лее-ме́нее Spanish: casi Spanish: cuasi Swedish: mer eller mindre
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