More

Quick meaning: More is a determiner meaning comparative degree of many: in greater number. (Used for a discrete quantity.).

Meaning

comparative degree of many: in greater number. (Used for a discrete quantity.).

More Meanings

1. comparative degree of much: in greater quantity, amount, or proportion. (Used for a continuous quantity.)
2. Additional; further.
3. Bigger, stronger, or more valuable.
4. To a greater degree or extent.
5. Used to form the comparative form of adjectives and adverbs.
6. (now poetic) In negative constructions: any further, any longer; any more.
7. (now dialectal, humorous or proscribed) Used in addition to an inflected comparative form.

Example Sentences

I want more soup.

I need more time.

More people are arriving.

There are more ways to do this than I can count.

Word Forms

• mores
• moring
• mored

Synonyms for more

Depending on context, synonyms include additional, further, more than.

Antonyms for more

Common opposites include fewer, less.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include additional, further, added, more than, maximum, farther.

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