more or less
adv/mɔɹ ɔɹ lɛs/US
Definitions
Approximately.
- There were a hundred people in the room, more or less.
- The sporophyte foot is also characteristic: it is very broad and more or less lenticular or disciform, as broad or broader than the calyptra stalk[…], and is sessile on the calyptra base[…]
Almost.
- I've more or less guaranteed myself a top mark in my final exams.
To varying extents, across instances
To varying extents, across instances; to an extent that varies among cases.
- [X] is always more or less of a [Y]
- Entrepreneurship is always more or less of a gamble.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for more or less. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA