More Or Less

Definition: More Or Less

More Or Less

Adverb

1. (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct; "lasted approximately an hour"; "in just about a minute"; "he's about 30 years old"; "I've had about all I can stand"; "we meet about once a month"; "some forty people came"; "weighs around a hundred pounds"; "roughly $3,000"; "holds 3 gallons, more or less"; "20 or so people were at the party".

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

Synonyms: More Or Less

Error

Adverb: more or less.

Quantity

Adjective: quantitative, some, any, aught, more or less, a few.

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.

I mean more or less knew he was a loser but that doesn't make it okay for you to come around andwhat? (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

Aren't we all more or less inanimate? (Coup de torchon; writing credit: Jean Aurenche; Bertrand Tavernier)

No, I'm more or less intact. (Firefly; writing credit: John Sullivan)

Well, that's more or less accurate. (Angel; writing credit: Let�cia Dornelles)

More or less, yes. (The Sheltering Sky; writing credit: Mark Peploe)

I thought love was more or less a givin' thing (I'm A Believer; performing artist: Smash Mouth)

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

Books

• Enjoying Squirrels More or Less (reference)

• Mel & Les: More or Less (Piece of My Mind Devotional Series) (reference)

• More or Less (reference)

• More or Less a Mess (Hello Math Reader - Level 2) (reference)

• The Polite Americans: A Wide-Angle View of Our More or Less Good Manners over 300 Years (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Perfetto! More or Less (reference)

• More Or Less [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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

Figure 23. Kohler thermometers. These instruments were constructed by Fritz Kohler, who worked notably for the Wilhelm Ostwald Institute at Leipzig. He fabricated these models more or less following the design of Richter's thermometer. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

And if any of the said assizes cannot be taken on the day of the county court, let there remain of the knights and freeholders, who were present at the county court on that day, as many as may be required for the efficient making of judgments, according as the business be more or less. (reference)

Their persons are free by a native right, and their properties, be they more or less, are their own, and at their own dispose, and not at his; or else it is no property. (Second Treatise of Government)

All are instruments of labour, more or less expensive to use, according to their age and sex. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The common right is nothing more or less than the protection of all radiating upon the right of each.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

For precise cerebral localization, other more or less invasive techniques are used in some cases to establish a high degree of confidence in the electrical localization. (references)

However, there is no evidence that single-donor platelets are either more or less effective than multiple-donor concentrates in patients who have not become alloimmunized. (references)

Although they often involve hospitalized patients, many clinical trials can be conducted on an outpatient basis, with participants more or less going about their normal activities. (references)

Business

The market being more or less equal between electronic devices and other mechanical devices including locks. (references)

Retail prices of products from foreign famous brands may be more or less two times U.S. retail prices in their own stores. (references)

It is a cyclical market, with products becoming more or less popular all the time. Thus, there will always be a market for accessories but it will always change. (references)

Civil Liberties

Georgia

As many as 40,000 are estimated to be living in Gali on a more or less permanent basis. (references)

Singapore

The fact that the Government gradually has raised the allowed weekly circulation of the publications corresponding more or less to actual demand allows the Government to maintain this aspect of control over the press while still maintaining the appearance of flexibility. (references)

Economic History

Belgium

This linguistic frontier has more or less endured. (references)

Human Rights

Singapore

For example, the Government enforces ethnic ratios for publicly subsidized housing, where the majority of citizens live and own their own units, a policy designed to achieve an ethnic mix more or less in proportion to that in the society at large. (references)

Indonesia

Under the government-sponsored transmigration program, large numbers of persons were moved voluntarily from overpopulated areas to more isolated and less developed areas (this program began during the Dutch colonial period and has been carried out more or less continuously since then). (references)

Minorities

Singapore

The Government enforces ethnic ratios for publicly subsidized housing, where the majority of citizens live and own their own units, a policy designed to achieve an ethnic mix more or less in proportion to that in the society at large. (references)

Trade

Russia

By now the procedures are more or less worked out. (references)

Travel

Uzbekistan

Dress for men is more or less the same throughout the country. (references)

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "more or less": ad more or less ♦ it's more or less the same ♦ What You See Is More Or Less What You Get. Additional references.

Chinese 

或多或少 , 大致 (approximately, roughly). (various references)

Czech

zhruba (at a rough guess, loosely, roughly), víceménì. (various references)

Danish

WYSIMOLWYG (What You See Is More Or Less What You Get, WYSIMOLWYG), vaere medansvarlig (to be more or less responsible), svejseprocessen medfoerer samtidigt en varmebehandling af grundmetallet der vil rekrystallisere mere eller mindre alt efter,hvor hoej temperaturen er,og hvor laenge varmebehandlingen varer (this welding operation is aCcompanied by heat treatment of the base metal, which thus becomes more or less recrystallized according to the temperature attained and the duration of the welding treatment), stringing betyder at laegge de enkelte roer ud paa én lang linje mere eller mindre taet ved den endelige linjefoering (stringing consists of distribution pipes in a single line along the route more or less adjacent to the position each will finally occupy), de foerste martensitplader kimdannes parvis og vokser mere eller mindre symmetrisk ind i baade tvillingen og moderkrystallen (the initial martensitic plates are nucleated in pairs extended more or less symmetrically into both the twin and the mother crystal), cirkulationen af de kemiske stoffer fra det abiotiske miljoe til de levende organismer og tilbage igen, betegnes : biogeokemisk kredsloeb (the more or less circular paths of chemical elements passing back and forth between organisms and abiotic environment are known as biogeochemical cycles), ca.90% af legemets blybelastning findes i knoglerne (more or less 90% of the lead body burden is found in the bones). (various references)

Dutch

min of meer (quite). (various references)

Esperanto

plimalpli. (various references)

Finnish

enemmän tai vähemmän. (various references)

French

plus ou moins. (various references)

German

mehr oder weniger (virtually). (various references)

Greek 

κατά το μάλλον, πάνω-κάτω (about, much about). (various references)

Hebrew 

פחות או יותר (thereabouts). (various references)

Hungarian

többé-kevésbé, meglehetősen (considerably, fairly, pretty, pretty much, some). (various references)

Indonesian

kurang lebih. (various references)

Italian

pressappoco (about), circa (about, approximately, concerning, just about, on, or so, round, some, someplace, somewhere). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

多少 (a little, some, somewhat). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たしょう (a little, future existence, many omens, metempsychosis, much happiness, previous existence, some, somewhat, third person, transmigration). (various references)

Manx

fo ny harrish. (various references)

Pig Latin

oremay oray esslay

Portuguese

mais ou menos (middling, so, some, somewhat, so-so, thereabout). (various references)

Russian 

более или менее. (various references)

Spanish

más o menos (about, roughly speaking). (various references)

Swedish

mer eller mindre. (various references)

Turkish

az çok (kind of, moderately, rather, somewhat), aşağı yukarı (about, approximately, approximative, around, circa, close on, in the neighborhood of, in the neighbourhood of, in the rough, just about, nigh, pretty much, rough, roughly, roundly, some, something like, sub-, thereabout, to and fro, tolerably), öyle ya da böyle (by hook or crook, rain or shine). (various references)

Ukrainian

більше чи менше, приблизно (about, approximately, around, in the rough, just about, or so, rough, some, something). (various references)

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

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: remorses.

-3 letters: morsels, osmoles, remorse, resoles, roomers, roosers, sorrels.

-4 letters: eroses, lesser, lessor, looser, looses, losers, merles, morels, morose, morros, morsel, mosser, ormers, osmole, osmols, osmose, rerose, resole, romeos, roomer, rooser, rooses, sorels, sorrel.

-5 letters: erose, erses, leers, loess, looms, loose, lores, loser, loses, merer, meres, merle, merls, moles, mools, moors, moose, morel, mores.