In The Least

Definitions: In The Least

In The Least

Adverb

1. To any extent at all; "are you in the least interested?".

2. In the slightest degree or in any respect; "Are you at all interested? No, not at all"; "was not in the least unfriendly".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: In The Least

Negation

Adverb: no, nay, not, nowise; not a bit, not a whit, not a jot; not at all, nohow, not in the least, not so; negative, negatory; no way; no such thing; nothing of the kind, nothing of the sort; quite the contrary, tout au contraire, far from it; tant s'en faut; on no account, in no respect; by no, by no manner of means; negatively.

Smallness

Almost, nearly, well-nigh, short of, not quite, all but; near upon, close upon; peu s'en faut, near the mark; within an ace of, within an inch of; on the brink of; scarcely, hardly, barely, only just, no more than. about, thereabouts, somewhere about, nearly, say; be the same, be little more or less. no ways, no way, no wise; not at all, not in the least, not a bit, not a bit of it, not a whit, not a jot, not a shadow; in no wise, in no respect; by no means, by no manner of means; on no account, at no hand.

Crosswords: In The Least

Get behind our soldiers, sailors, and our allies Send them the most food possible in the least shipping space--Do it by eating less wheat, beef, pork, fats, and sugar / / Rienecke Beckman 1917.Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

This makes it lawful for a man to kill a thief, who has not in the least hurt him, nor declared any design upon his life, any farther than, by the use of force, so to get him in his power, as to take away his money, or what he pleases, from him; because using force, where he has no right, to get me into his power, let his pretence be what it will, I have no reason to suppose, that he, who would take away my liberty, would not, when he had me in his power, take away every thing else. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Lightly and swiftly they skimmed over the ground, and I could not in the least understand how it was I kept up with them so easily.

There are no contraries or admixtures of any kind to temper or soften in the least the pains of hell.

I was not in the least sensible of the progressive motion made in the air by the island.

But the dining out, being, as I have stated, a constant element, does not in the least affect a comparative statement like this.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Mass screening has resulted in the least response. (references)

Present mortality is very low. In the least favorable recent series reported, there were 2.9 deaths per 10,000 patients, another series, 4.5 deaths per 100,000 treatments were reported. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "in the least": not in the least. Additional references.

Albanian

fare (at all, dead, entirely, none, not at all, not in the least, nothing, plenty, quite, scarcely, spermatic, very, whatever, wholly), aspak (at all, entirely, far from, none, not a bit, not at all, not in the least, nothing, quite, whatever, wholly). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مطلقا (authentically, never, not in the least, noway), ‏أبدا (always, at all, eternally, ever, never, no, no way, not a bit, not at all, not in the least, not on your life). (various references)

Chinese 

毫不 (hardly, not at all, not in the least). (various references)

Czech

ani v nejmenším (not in the least). (various references)

Finnish

se ei minua ensinkään ihmetytä (it does not surprise me in the least), lainkaan (not at all, not in the least), ei rahtuakaan (not a bit, not in the least), ei ollenkaan (not in the least, not in the slightest degree), ei ensinkään (not at all, not in the least). (various references)

French

pas du tout (in no way, not in the least). (various references)

German

im geringsten. (various references)

Hebrew 

כלל לא (far from it, not a bit, not at all, not in the least). (various references)

Hungarian

egyáltalán nem (never, none, not at all, not in the least, nothing). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

苟も (any, at all, even in a slight degree, ever), 毫も (at all), 分厘 (a bit). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぶ�"り�" (a bit), いやしくも (any, at all, even in a slight degree, ever), �"うも (at all). (various references)

Manx

er ny sloo. (various references)

Pig Latin

inay ethay eastlay

Portuguese

há pelo menos (not in the least). (various references)

Romanian

de loc (any, anyhow, at all, local, never, nohow, not a bit, not a tinker's damn, not at all, not in the least, not it the least degree, not nearly, nothing, the deuce a bit, the devil a bit), câtuşi de puţin (any, not a bit, not a tinker's damn, not in the least, nothing). (various references)

Russian 

нисколько (at all, nary, none, not a mite, not at all, not in the least, nothing, remotely), ничуть (not a bit, not a mite, not in the least), ни в малейшей степени (not in the least, nothing). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

u najmanju ruku (least: in the least), ni najmanje (least: not in the least, not at all). (various references)

Spanish

de ninguna manera (by no means, certainly not, in no way, no way, not anywise, not at all, not in the least, not likely, not on your life, nothing doing, noway, noways, of no account, on no account, under no circumstances). (various references)

Swedish

inte det ringaste (not in the least). (various references)

Turkish

hiçbir şekilde (anywise, by no means, in no way, in no wise, never, not in the least, on no account, under no circumstances), hiç (any, at all, aught, by any means, ever, far from, least of all, nary, naught, ne'er, never, nil, Nix, no, no whit, none, not a dreg, not a whit, not an iota, not at all, not exactly, not in the least, nothing, nought, null, nullity, ought, whatever, whatsoever, zero, zilch). (various references)

Ixobrychus eurhythmus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Misspellings

"In The Least" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: in the leat. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: anisette, athletes, entitles, hesitant, hesitate, lathiest, tetanies, tetanise, theelins.

-3 letters: atheist, athlete, elastin, entails, entitle, etesian, ethanes, halites, hantles, heliast, inhales, instate, lateens, latents, lattens, lattins, leanest, lethean, lineate, lisente, lithest, nailset, neatest, nettles, salient, saltine, satinet, setline, sheitan, sheltie, shtetel, slainte, staithe, stealth, sthenia, talents, telnets, tenails, tensile, theelin, theines, thistle.

-4 letters: aliens, alines, aneles, elains, elates, elints, elites, enates, enisle, enlist, ensile, entail, estate, ethane, halest, halite, hansel, hantle, haslet, hasten, inhale, inlets, instal, lateen, latens, latent, latest, lathes, lathis, latish, latten, lattes, lattin, lethes, lianes, listee, listen, litten, nestle, nettle, saithe, saline, saltie, sateen, senate, senile, settle, shanti, sheila, shelta, shtetl, silane, silent, sitten, snathe, stelae, stelai, tahsil, taints, talent, tanist, teasel, telnet, tenail, tenets, teniae, tenias, tenths, tentie, testae, thanes, theine, theins, theist, thenal, thetas, tilths, tineal, tineas, tinsel, tisane, titans, tithes, titles.

-5 letters: aisle, alien, aline, alist, anele, anile, anils, anise, antes, antis, ashen, atilt, easel, eaten, elain, elans, elate, elint, elite, enate, entia, etnas, haets, hails, hales, halts, hanse, hants, haste, hates, heals, heats, heels, heils, heist, hents, hilts, hints, inlet, inset, islet, istle, laith, lanes, laten, lathe, lathi, laths, latte, leans, leant, lease, leash, least, leets, lenes, lenis, lense, lethe, liane, liens, lines, lints, litas, lithe, nails, nates, neath, neats, neist, netts, nites, saint, saith, satin, seine, selah, sente, senti, setae, setal, shale, shalt, sheal, sheen, sheet, shent, shiel, shine, slain, slant, slate, sleet, snail, snath, stain, stale, stane, state, steal, steel, stein, stela, stele, stile, stilt, stint, taels, tails, tains, taint, tales, taste, tates, teals, tease, teats, teels, teens, teeth, telae, teles, telia, tenet, tenia, tense, tenth, tents, tesla, testa, teths, thane, thein, thens, these, theta, thine, thins, tiles, tilth, tilts, tinea, tines, tints, titan, tithe, title.

+2 letters: stealthiness, unhealthiest.

+3 letters: establishment.

+4 letters: anesthetically, establishments, stealthinesses, technicalities.

+5 letters: anticholesterol, epithelizations, hemagglutinates, hyperventilates, kinesthetically, lightfastnesses, methylxanthines, reestablishment, trihalomethanes.

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