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Princeton's WordNet
leastadjective
something that is of no importance
"it is the least I can do"; "that is the least of my concerns"
Antonyms:
to the highest degree, mostleast(a)adverb
the superlative of `little' that can be used with mass nouns and is usually preceded by `the'; a quantifier meaning smallest in amount or extent or degree
"didn't care the least bit"; "he has the least talent of anyone"
Antonyms:
most, to the highest degreeleast, to the lowest degreeadverb
used to form the superlative
"The garter snake is the least dangerous snake"
Synonyms:
to the lowest degreeAntonyms:
to the highest degree, most
Dictionary of English Synonymes
leastadjective
leastadjective
Synonyms:
in the smallest degree
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
leastadjective
leastnoun
Synonyms:
minimumAssociated words:
minimize, minimization
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Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#126 | last | |
#190 | under | |
#533 | below | |
#535 | less | |
#710 | least | |
#1104 | lower | |
#1654 | minimum | |
#1905 | lowest | |
#5831 | fewer | |
#7996 | minus | |
#8734 | lesser | |
#9976 | smallest | |
#23114 | slightest | |
#42183 | moins | |
#47004 | fewest | |
#66744 | meanest |
How to use least in a sentence?
I’m eager to go back there, for sure, based on the satellite study, there are 300,000 meteorites, at least, waiting to still be collected in Antarctica. And the larger the (number of) samples that we have, the better we can understand our solar system.
We have to deal with declining powers, not just rising ones, like Russia, and Putin demonstrates every day that declining powers can be at least as disruptive as rising ones.
If I have to pick, it will be Jimmy Morales, at least we don't have anything that speaks against him yet.
Environmentalist Jai Dhar Gupta:
Even the Central Pollution Control Board has no idea of what it is talking about, to give credit to Delhi's Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, Arvind Kejriwal has at least put forth some ideas, no matter how weak they are. At least Arvind Kejriwal's seeing New Delhi as an issue.
This is a moment when those benefits would be even more important than they were six months ago, in many respects, and they are no longer there, that stability and predictability of the income support is hugely important for families for planning their weekly and monthly expenses, for having the peace of mind that they're going to -- at least more so than before -- be able to afford their basic necessities and provide for their families.
Translations for least
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- اقلArabic
- nejméněCzech
- am wenigsten, geringstGerman
- malmultaEsperanto
- menos, mínimoSpanish
- pienin, vähiten, vähinFinnish
- moins, moindreFrench
- íostaIrish
- कम से कमHindi
- legkisebbHungarian
- minimo, menoItalian
- הכי פחותHebrew
- 最低Japanese
- 가장 적게Korean
- minstDutch
- najmniejPolish
- mínimoPortuguese
- наименьшийRussian
- minimalan, najmanjiSerbo-Croatian
- minstSwedish
- குறைந்ததுTamil
- కనీసంTelugu
- 最小, 最少Chinese
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