Definition of More or less

1. Adverb. (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct. "20 or so people were at the party"


2. Adverb. To a small degree or extent. "The children argued because one slice of cake was slightly larger than the other"
Exact synonyms: Slightly, Somewhat

Definition of More or less

1. Adverb. approximately ¹

2. Adverb. almost ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of More Or Less

mordication
mordications
mordicative
more'n
more(a)
more-or-less
more Catholic than the Pope
more and more
more cry than wool
more equal
more haste, less speed
more like
more like it
more often than not
more or less
more power to your elbow
more so
more than
more than one can poke a stick at
more than one can shake a stick at
more than you can shake a stick at
moreen
moreens
morefold
moreish
morel
moreland
morelands
morelle

Literary usage of More or less

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Republic of Plato by Plato, Benjamin Jowett (1881)
"Whereupon they proceed to make a law which fixes a sum of money as the qualification of citizenship; the money is more or less accordingly as the oligarchy ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"ECHINOIDEA, ek-i-noi'de-a, or SEA URCHINS, a class of Echinodermata with a more or less spheroidal or discoidal body enclosed in a continuous test or shell ..."

3. Journal by Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain) (1875)
"Is there more or less of dry dust from tho surface, and is it more or less ... Are the accidents more or less serious ?—Less injurious in broken knees and ..."

4. The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle (1891)
"Now, if they say this because one may be more or less pleased, then the same thing may be said of justice and the other virtues; for it is plain that, ..."

5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1904)
"It need hardly be pointed out at this late day, though it is more or less persistently ignored, that primitive Darwinism, while essaying to explain the ..."

6. The Lancet (1898)
"It feels with the surgeon's finger in the rectum when recent like a depression in the walls of the bowel and when of long standing more or less indurated. ..."

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