more or less

more or less

See also: more-or-less

English

Alternative forms

• more-or-less

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /mɔɹ ɔɹ lɛs/

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Adverb

more or less (not comparable)

1. Approximately.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:approximately

   There are hundred people in the room, more or less.

   • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 5:

     The sporophyte foot is also characteristic: it is very broad and more or less lenticular or disciform, as broad or broader than the calyptra stalk […] , and is sessile on the calyptra base […]

2. Almost.

   I've more or less guaranteed myself a top mark in my final exams.

Translations

approximately

Albanian: pak a shumë Arabic: حَوَالِي‎ (ḥawālī) Asturian: más o menos Bulgarian: малко или много (malko ili mnogo) Catalan: més o menys (ca), si fa no fa (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 大約／大约 (zh) (dàyuē), 左右 (zh) (zuǒyòu), 將近／将近 (zh) (jiāngjìn), 大致 (zh) (dàzhì), 或多或少 (zh) (huòduōhuòshǎo), 大概 (zh) (dàgài) Czech: víceméně (cs) Danish: mere eller mindre Dutch: min of meer Esperanto: pli-malpli Finnish: enemmän tai vähemmän French: peu ou prou (fr), plus ou moins (fr) Middle French: poy plus poy moins Galician: máis ou menos Georgian: ასე თუ ისე (ase tu ise) German: mehr oder weniger, ungefähr (de) Greek: περισσότερο ή λιγότερο (perissótero í ligótero) Hebrew: פחות או יותר‎ Hungarian: többé-kevésbé (hu) Icelandic: um það bil (is), nokkurn veginn, sirka Ido: plu o min Italian: più o meno (it), su per giù (it), approssimativamente (it) Japanese: およそ (ja) (oyoso), 約 (ja) (やく, yaku) Latin: plūs minusve, magis minusve, amplius minusve, plūs minus Lithuanian: daugiau ar mažiau Norwegian: Bokmål: mer eller mindre (no) Nynorsk: meir eller mindre Occitan: mai o mens (oc) Polish: mniej więcej (pl), z grubsza (pl) Portuguese: mais ou menos (pt) Romanian: mai mult sau mai puțin Russian: бо́лее и́ли ме́нее (ru) (bóleje íli méneje), бо́лее-ме́нее (ru) (bóleje-méneje) Serbo-Croatian: manje-više (sh) Spanish: más o menos (es) Swedish: mer eller mindre (sv) Tagalog: humigit-kumulang Telugu: ఎక్కువతక్కువగా (ekkuvatakkuvagā) Ukrainian: бі́льш-ме́нш (uk) (bílʹš-ménš) Urdu: کم و بیش‎ (kam-o-besh) Welsh: mwy neu lai Yiddish: מער ווייניקער‎ (mer veyniker), מער אָדער ווייניקער‎ (mer oder veyniker)

almost

Albanian: pak a shumë Bulgarian: малко или много (malko ili mnogo) Chinese: Mandarin: 幾乎／几乎 (zh) (jīhū), 差點／差点 (zh) (chàdiǎn), 差一點／差一点 (zh) (chāyīdiǎn), 差不多 (zh) (chàbuduō) Danish: mere eller mindre, næsten (da) Esperanto: pli aŭ malpli Finnish: lähes (fi), enemmän tai vähemmän French: plus ou moins (fr), presque (fr) Galician: case (gl) Georgian: ასე თუ ისე (ase tu ise) German: mehr oder weniger, fast (de) Hungarian: félig-meddig (hu) Icelandic: meira eða minna Italian: quasi (it) Japanese: ほとんど (ja) (hotondo) Norwegian: Bokmål: mer eller mindre (no) Nynorsk: meir eller mindre Portuguese: quase (pt) Russian: бо́лее и́ли ме́нее (ru) (bóleje íli méneje), бо́лее-ме́нее (ru) (bóleje-méneje) Spanish: casi (es) Swedish: mer eller mindre (sv)

Further reading

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