most: meaning and definitions

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What is most?

What is most?

  • Greatest in number: won the most votes.
  • Greatest in amount, extent, or degree: has the most compassion.
  • In the greatest number of instances: Most fish have fins.
  • The greatest amount or degree: She has the most to gain.
  • Slang The greatest, best, or most exciting. Used with the: That party was the most!
  • The greatest part or number: Most of the town was destroyed. Most of the books were missing.
  • In or to the highest degree or extent. Used with many adjectives and adverbs to form the superlative degree: most honest; most impatiently.
  • Very: a most impressive piece of writing.
  • Informal Almost: Most everyone agrees.
  • at (the) most At the maximum: We saw him for ten minutes at the most. She ran two miles at most.

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