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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Greatest in number: won the most votes.
  • adj. Greatest in amount, extent, or degree: has the most compassion.
  • adj. In the greatest number of instances: Most fish have fins.
  • n. The greatest amount or degree: She has the most to gain.
  • n. Slang The greatest, best, or most exciting. Used with the: That party was the most!
  • pronoun. The greatest part or number: Most of the town was destroyed. Most of the books were missing.
  • ad. In or to the highest degree or extent. Used with many adjectives and adverbs to form the superlative degree: most honest; most impatiently.
  • ad. Very: a most impressive piece of writing.
  • ad. Informal Almost: Most everyone agrees.
  • idiom. at (the) most At the maximum: We saw him for ten minutes at the most. She ran two miles at most.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • determiner. Superlative form of much.
  • ad. Superlative form of many.
  • ad. Superlative form of much.
  • ad. Forms the superlative of many adjectives.
  • ad. To a great extent or degree; highly; very.
  • n. The greatest amount.
  • n. A record-setting amount.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • Consisting of the greatest number or quantity; greater in number or quantity than all the rest; nearly all.
  • Greatest in degree.
  • Highest in rank; greatest.
  • ad. In the greatest or highest degree.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Greatest in size or extent; largest: superlative of much or mickle in its original sense ‘great,’ ‘large.’
  • Greatest in age; oldest.
  • Greatest in rank, position, or importance; highest; chief.
  • Greatest in amount, degree, or intensity: superlative of much.
  • Greatest in number; numerous beyond others; amounting to a considerable majority: superlative of many: used before nouns in the plural.
  • n. The greatest or greater number: in this sense plural.
  • n. Greatest value, amount, or advantage; utmost extent, degree, or effect.
  • In the greatest or highest or in a very great or high degree, quantity, or extent; mostly; chiefly; principally.
  • Used before adjectives and adverbs to form a superlative phrase, as more is to form a comparative: as, most vile; most wicked; most illustrious; most rapidly.
  • A double superlative suffix associated with -more, a comparative suffix, now taken as a suffixal form of most, as used in forming superlatives, as in foremost, hindmost, uppermost, utmost, inmost, topmost, etc. Compare -more.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. (superlative of `many' used with count nouns and often preceded by `the') quantifier meaning the greatest in number
  • ad. (of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished; all but
  • ad. very
  • ad. used to form the superlative
  • adj. the superlative of `much' that can be used with mass nouns and is usually preceded by `the'; a quantifier meaning the greatest in amount or extent or degree
  • Antonym
    least    fewest   
    Form
    make the most of    foremost    -most    mostly   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    greatest    chiefly    almost    all   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Gross    Grosz    Post    adios    arkose    boast    bowse    close    coast    diagnose   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    several    dozen    best    third    typical    majority    particulary    apportioning    sparsity    rose-hung