Definition of least

"least" in the noun sense

1. least

something that is of no importance

"it is the least I can do"

"that is the least of my concerns"

"least" in the adjective sense

1. least

the superlative of `little' that can be used with mass nouns and is usually preceded by `the' a quantifier meaning smallest in amount or extent or degree

"didn't care the least bit"

"he has the least talent of anyone"

"least" in the adverb sense

1. least, to the lowest degree

used to form the superlative

"The garter snake is the least dangerous snake"

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Quotations for least

The least foolish is wise. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Although the last, not least. [ William Shakespeare ]

Of evils to choose the least. [ Cicero ]

Asses that bray most, eat least. [ Proverb ]

They most assume who know the least. [ Gay ]

They love most who are least valued. [ Proverb ]

Of two evils I have chose the least. [ Prior ]

He who knows most believes the least. [ Buckle ]

Fate steals along with silent tread,
Found oftenest in what least we dread;
Frowns in the storm with angry brow,
But in the sunshine strikes the blow. [ William Cowper ]

In solitude, where we are least alone. [ Byron ]

They that govern most make least noise. [ John Selden ]

Strongest minds
Are often those of whom the noisy world
Hears least. [ Wordsworth ]

There must be two at least to a quarrel. [ Proverb ]

The least boy carries the biggest fiddle. [ Proverb ]

Thou Great First Cause, least understood. [ Pope ]

To me at least was never evening yet
But seemed far beautifuller than its day. [ Robert Browning ]

The deepest rivers make least din,
The silent soule doth most abound in care. [ Earl of Stirling ]

The stumbler stumbles least in rugged way. [ George Herbert ]

They most enjoy the world who least admire. [ Young ]

Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity
In least speak most, to my capacity. [ William Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream, Act V. Sc.1 ]

The least and weakest man can do some hurt. [ Proverb ]

He that knows least commonly presumes most. [ Proverb ]

Stillest streams
Oft water greenest meadows; and the bird
That flutters least is longest on the wing. [ William Cowper ]

Wealth is the least trustworthy of anchors. [ J. G. Holland ]

The hare starts when a man least expects it. [ Proverb ]

Look not on pleasures as they come, but go.
Defer not the least virtue; life's poor span
Make not an ell by trifling in thy woe.
If thou do ill, the joy fades, not the pains;
If well, the pain doth fade, the joy remains. [ George Herbert ]

Fortune confounds the wise.
And when they least expect it turns the dice. [ Dryden ]

When gold speaks, no reason the least avails. [ Proverb ]

When we mean to build,
We first survey the plot, then draw the model;
And when we see the figure of the house,
Then must we rate the cost of the erection;
Which if we find outweighs ability.
What do we then, but draw anew the model
In fewer offices; or, at least, desist
To build at all? [ William Shakespeare ]

He that is presently denied is least deceived. [ Proverb ]

Who more busy than they that have least to do? [ Proverb ]

Where we least think there goes the hare away. [ Proverb ]

He who best knows the world will love it least [ Balzac ]

Man is a carnivorous production,
And must have meals, at least one meal a day;
He cannot live, like woodcocks, upon suction.
But, like the shark and tiger, must have prey.
Although his anatomical construction
Bears vegetables, in a grumbling way,
Your laboring people think beyond all question,
Beef, veal, and mutton better for digestion. [ Byron ]

Laugh not too much: the witty man laughs least:
For wit is news only to ignorance.
Less at thine own things laugh: lest in the jest
Thy person share, and the conceit advance. [ George Herbert ]

When the sun is highest he casts the least shadow. [ Proverb ]

The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing. [ Cowper ]

Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know. [ Montaigne ]

What's come to perfection perishes,
Things learned on earth we shall practise in heaven;
Works done least rapidly Art most cherishes. [ Robert Browning ]

Jul: They do not love that do not show their love.
Luc: O, they love least that let men know their love! [ William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act I. Sc. 2 ]

To love is the least of the faults of a loving woman. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Wishes, at least, are the easy pleasures of the poor. [ Douglas Jerrold ]

Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation. [ Disraeli ]

Anger is a transient hatred; or at least very like it. [ South ]

Poets are like birds: the least thing makes them sing. [ Chateaubriand ]

Our esteem is apt to be given where we know the least. [ Michelet ]

They that command the most, enjoy themselves the least. [ Proverb ]

To restrain the tongue is not the least of the virtues.

At the least bear patiently, if thou canst net joyfully. [ Thomas a Kempis ]

He who shares honey with a bear hath the least part of it. [ Proverb ]

Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest. [ Colton ]

Great books, like large skulls, have often the least brains. [ W. B. Clulow ]

The least wit a man has, the less he knows that he wants it. [ Proverb ]

The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so. [ Boileau ]

It is remarkable that they talk most who have the least to say. [ Prior ]

Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least. [ Johnson ]

The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least. [ Madame Swetchine ]

The least reliance can be placed even on the most exalted fortune. [ Livy ]

It is the danger which is least expected that soonest comes to us. [ Francois M. A. de Voltaire ]

That man has the fewest wants who is the least anxious for wealth. [ Publius Syrus ]

Love, that seldom gives us happiness, at least makes us dream of it. [ Senancourt ]

I have often thought of death, and I find it the least of all evils. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

Among the perils and dangers of life, solitude is none of the least. [ Proverb ]

Nature has no promise for society, least of all, any remedy for sin. [ Horace Bushnell ]

She is best who is least spoken of among men, whether for good or evil. [ Pericles ]

Women have no appreciation of good looks. At least, good women have not. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

The woman we love most is often the one to whom we express it the least. [ Beauchene ]

Every day should be distinguished by at least one particular act of love. [ Lavater ]

We are not so sensible of. the greatest health, as of the least sickness. [ Proverb ]

Gratitude is the least of virtues, but ingratitude is the worst of vices. [ Proverb ]

If you believe in fate to your harm, believe it, at least, for your good. [ Emerson ]

What is life but the choice of that good which contains the least of evil! [ B. R. Haydon ]

To breed up the son to commonsense is evermore the parent's least expense. [ Dryden ]

Pride is increased by ignorance; those assume the most who know the least. [ Gay ]

The company in which you will improve most will be least expensive to you. [ George Washington ]

Our blessings are the least heeded, because the most common events of life. [ Hosea Ballou ]

Every duty, even the least duty, involves the whole principle of obedience. [ Archbishop Manning ]

The fact is, nothing comes, - at least, nothing good. All has to be fetched. [ Charles Buxton ]

It is those who make the least display of their sorrow who mourn the deepest. [ Chapin ]

Truth is sensitive and jealous of the least encroachment upon its sacredness. [ A. Bronson Alcott ]

Decency is the least of all laws, yet the law which is most strictly observed. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Advice is seldom welcome; those who want it the most always like it the least. [ Chesterfield ]

The king is the least independent man in his dominions; the beggar the most so. [ J. C. and A. W. Hare ]

In religion as in friendship, they who profess most are ever the least sincere. [ Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan ]

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest. [ Voltaire ]

The pains that excite the least pity in women are those that we suffer for them. [ Chabanon ]

For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human. [ Plutarch ]

An engagement is hardly a serious one that has not been broken off at least once. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]

Those who ought to be secure from calumny are generally those who avoid it least. [ Stanislaus ]

He is richest who is content with the least; for content is the wealth of nature. [ Socrates ]

The precepts of philosophy effect not the least benefit to one confirmed in fear. [ Hitopadesa ]

Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity. [ Wilkie Collins ]

Sure those who have neither strength nor weapons to fight at least should be civil. [ Goldsmith ]

Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least. [ Horace ]

Those who cannot themselves observe can at least acquire the observation of others. [ Beaconsfield ]

Sincerity makes the least man to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite. [ Spurgeon ]

If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us at least live so as to deserve happiness. [ Fichte ]

It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven. [ N. Caussin ]

A fact is a great thing: a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil. [ Carlyle ]

Wealth is the smallest thing on earth, the least gift that God has bestowed on mankind. [ Martin Luther ]

Let the greater part of the news thou hearest be the least part of what thou believest. [ Quarles ]

Every one is least known to himself, and it is very difficult for a man to know himself. [ Cicero ]

Two misfortunes are twice as many at least as are needful to be talked over at one time. [ Sterne ]

But at the least sad reverse the mask drops off, the man remains, and the hero vanishes. [ J. B. Rousseau ]

I cannot but destroy, or at least impair most seriously the clearness of our mental vision. [ H. P. Liddon ]

Hope, deceitful as she is, serves at least to conduct us through life by an agreeable path. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Flatterers are but the shadows of princes' bodies; the least thick cloud makes them invisible. [ John Webster ]

Many a withering thought lies hid, not lost, in smiles that least befit those who wear them most. [ Byron ]

However virtuous a woman may be, a compliment on her virtue is what gives her the least pleasure. [ Prince de Ligne ]

Dress deceives us: jewels and gold hide everything: the girl herself is the least part of herself. [ Ovid ]

Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed; health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied. [ Colton ]

Every effect doth, after a sort, contain, or at least resemble, the cause from which it proceedeth. [ Hooker ]

Though the generous man care the least for wealth; yet he will be the most galled with the want of it. [ Proverb ]

They that hold the greatest farms pay the least rent (applied to rich men that are unthankful to God). [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The Spaniards have a saying that there is no man whom Fortune does not visit at least once in his life. [ Ik Marvel ]

People who love each other most before marriage, are sometimes those who love each other least after it. [ A. Dupuy ]

Trust him little who praises all, him less who censures all, and him least who is indifferent about all. [ Lavater ]

The wretchedness which fate has rendered voiceless and tuneless is not the least wretched, but the most. [ Carlyle ]

Nobody can continue easy in his own mind who does not endeavour to become least of all and servant of all. [ Thomas à Kempis ]

Women are shy of nothing so much as the little word Yes, at least they say it only after they have said No. [ Jean Paul ]

There is no room in the universe for the least contempt or pride; but only for a gentle and a reverent heart. [ James Martineau ]

Friend, howsoever thou earnest by this book, I will assure thee thou wert least in my thoughts when I writ it. [ Bunyan ]

In ill-matched marriages, the fault is less the woman's than the man's, as the choice depended on her the least. [ Mme. de Rieux ]

Open your mouth and purse cautiously, and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great. [ Zimmermann ]

Chance is always powerful; let your hook always be cast. In a pool where you least expect it there will be a fish. [ Ovid ]

Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it, there will be a fish. [ Ovid ]

God alone is entirely exempt from all want: of human virtues, that which needs least is the most absolute and divine. [ Plutarch ]

Covetous men need money least, yet they most affect it; but prodigals, who need it most have the least regard for it. [ Alexander Wilson ]

Familiarity so dulls the edge of perception as to make us least acquainted with things forming part of our daily life. [ Julia Ward Howe ]

The greatest of all human benefits, that at least without which no other benefit can be truly enjoyed, is independence. [ Parke Godwin ]

What wonderful things are events! The least are of greater importance than the most sublime and comprehensive soeculations. [ Beaconsfield ]

The least degree of ambiguity which leaves the mind in suspense as to the meaning ought to be avoided with the greatest care. [ Blair ]

The little and short sayings of nice and excellent men are of great value, like the dust of gold, or the least sparks of diamonds. [ Tillotson ]

Having sown the seed of secrecy, it should be properly guarded and not in the least broken; for being broken, it will not prosper. [ Hitopadesa ]

There are moments of intense joy and grief, which every one has, at least, once in his life, that illuminate his character at once. [ Lavater ]

There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy, which must sadden, or at least soften, every reflecting observer. [ Coleridge ]

The life of many a man and woman is so filled with overmuch of good things that they have no time to enjoy the least of their treasures. [ Newell Dwight Hillis ]

A summer friendship, whose flattering leaves, that shadowed us in our prosperity, with the least gust drop off in the autumn of adversity. [ Massinger ]

Eloquence may be found in conversation and all kinds of writings; it is rarely where we seek it, and sometimes where it is least expected. [ La Bruyere ]

To have a true idea of man or of life, one must have stood himself on the brink of suicide, or on the doorsill of insanity, at least once. [ Taine ]

A friendship that makes the least noise is very often the most useful; for which reason I should prefer a prudent friend to a zealous one. [ Addison ]

Coarse kindness is at least better than coarse anger; and in all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of its dullness. [ George Eliot ]

The scholars of Ireland seem not to have the least conception of style, but run on in a flat phraseology, often mingled with barbarous terms. [ Swift ]

There is not the least flower but seems to hold up its head, and to look pleasantly, in the secret sense of the goodness of its Heavenly Maker. [ R. South ]

Rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in; it is the quackery of eloquence, and deals in nostrums, not in cures. [ Colton ]

It is a general rule, one at least to which I know no exceptions, that all superior men inherit the elements of their superiority from their mothers. [ Michelet ]

Those who have resources within themselves, who can dare to live alone, want friends the least, but at the same time best know how to prize them most. [ Caleb C. Colton ]

The greatest and most amiable privilege which the rich enjoy over the poor is that which they exercise the least, - the privilege of making them happy. [ Colton ]

Travelling is like gambling; it is ever connected with winning and losing, and generally where least expected we receive more or less than we hoped for. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

In taste and imagination, in the graces of style, in the arts of persuasion, in the magnificence of public works, the ancients were at least our equals. [ Macaulay ]

I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses, - the very easiest to be deadened when wakened, and in some never wakened at all. [ Thackeray ]

The early and the latter part of human life are the best, or, at least, the most worthy of respect; the one is the age of innocence, the other of reason. [ Joubert ]

Suspicions amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds; they ever fly by twilight; they are to be repressed, or at the least well guarded, for they cloud the mind. [ Bacon ]

O unfortunates who sin without pleasure! in your errors be more reasonable; be, at least, fortunate sinners. Since you must be damned, be damned for amiable faults. [ Voltaire ]

Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding. Vulgar persons can't sit still, or, at least, they must work their limbs or features. [ Holmes ]

Surprise is so essential an ingredient of wit that no wit will bear repetition; - at least, the original electrical feeling produced by any piece of wit can never be renewed. [ Sydney Smith ]

Simple nature, however defective, is better than the least objectionable affectation; and, defects for defects, those which are natural are more bearable than affected virtues. [ Saint-Evremond ]

Man, it is not thy works, which are mortal, infinitely little, and the greatest no greater than the least, but only the spirit thou workest in, that can have worth or continuance. [ Carlyle ]

The greatest of fools is he who imposes on himself, and in his greatest concern thinks certainly he knows that which he has least studied, and of which he is most profoundly ignorant. [ Shaftesbury ]

There is graciousness and a kind of urbanity in beginning with men by esteem and confidence. It proves, at least, that we have long lived in good company with others and with ourselves. [ Joubert ]

That souls which are created for one another so seldom find each other and are generally divided, that in the moments of happiest union least recognise each other - that is a sad riddle! [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Sculpture is not the mere cutting of the form of anything in stone; it is the cutting of the effect of it. Very often the true form, in the marble, would not be in the least like itself. [ John Ruskin ]

Most men take least notice of what is plain, as if that was of no use; but puzzle their thoughts to be themselves in those vast depths and abysses which no human understanding can fathom. [ Bishop Sherlock ]

It is with nations as with individuals, those who know the least of others think the highest of themselves; for the whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other. [ Colton ]

It is with jealousy as with the gout. When such distempers are in the blood, there is never any security against their breaking out, and that often on the slightest occasions, and when least suspected. [ Fielding ]

Monotony, even under circumstances least favourable to the usual elements of happiness, becomes a happiness in itself, growing, as it were, unseen, out of the undisturbed certainty of peculiar customs. [ Lord Lytton ]

It is observed at sea that men are never so much disposed to grumble and mutiny as when least employed. Hence an old captain, when there was nothing else to do, would issue the order to scour the anchor. [ Samuel Smiles ]

I armed her against the censures of the world; showed her that books were sweet unreproaching companions to the miserable, and that if they could not bring us to enjoy life, they would at least teach us to endure it. [ Goldsmith ]

Commerce is one of the daughters of Fortune, inconstant and deceitful as her mother. She chooses her residence where she is least expected, and shifts her abode when her continuance is, in appearance, most firmly settled. [ Johnson ]

The great secret both of health and successful industry is the absolute yielding up of one's consciousness to the business and diversion of the hour - never permitting the one to infringe in the least degree upon the other. [ Sismondi ]

Women who are the least bashful are not unfrequently the most modest; and we are never more deceived than when we would infer any laxity of principle from that freedom of demeanor which often arises from a total ignorance of vice. [ Colton ]

Greatness can only be rightly estimated when minuteness is justly reverenced. Greatness is the aggregation of minuteness; nor can its sublimity be felt truthfully by any mind unaccustomed to the affectionate watching of what is least. [ John Ruskin ]

Love is rarely a hypocrite; but hate - how detect and how guard against it! It lurks where you least expect it; it is created by causes that you can the least foresee; and civilization multiplies its varieties, whilst it favors its disguise. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Oddities and singularities of behavior may attend genius; when they do, they are its misfortunes and its blemishes. The man of true genius will be ashamed of them; at least he will never affect to distinguish himself by whimsical peculiarities. [ S. W. Temple ]

Beauty is a form of Genius - is higher indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. People say sometimes that Beauty is only superficial, but at least it is not so superficial as thought. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

As the mind of Johnson was robust, but neither nimble nor graceful, so his style was void of all grace and ease, and, being the most unlike of all styles to the natural effusion of a cultivated mind, had the least pretension to the praise of eloquence. [ Sir J. Mackintosh ]

When we think of the tenderness, of the solicitude, of the protection, of the grace, of the charm, of the happiness, or at least of the consolation that woman brings to the life of man, one is tempted to speak to her only with uncovered head, and bowed knee. [ L. Desnoyers ]

When we live habitually with the wicked, we become necessarily either their victim or their disciple; when we associate, on the contrary, with virtuous men, we form ourselves in imitation of their virtues, or, at least, lose every day something of our faults. [ Agapet ]

That fine part of our construction, the eye, seems as much the receptacle and seat of our passions as the mind itself; and at least it is the outward portal to introduce them to the house within, or rather the common thoroughfare to let our affections pass in and out. [ Addison ]

It is quite deplorable to see how many rational creatures, or at least who are thought so, mistake suffering for sanctity, and think a sad face and a gloomy habit of mind propitious offerings to that Deity whose works are all light and lustre and harmony and loveliness. [ Lady Morgan ]

Without distinction, without calculation, without procrastination, love. Lavish it upon the poor, where it is very easy; especially upon the rich, who often need it most; most of all upon our equals, where it is very difficult, and for whom perhaps we each do least of all. [ Henry Drummond ]

The eye is continually influenced by what it cannot detect; nay, it is not going too far to say that it is most influenced by what it detects least. Let the painter define, if he can, the variations of lines on which depend the change of expression in the human countenance. [ Ruskin ]

Those orators who give us much noise and many words, but little argument and less wit, and who are the loudest when least lucid, should take a lesson from the great volume of nature; she often gives us the lightning without the thunder, but never the thunder without the lightning. [ Burritt ]

Style! style, why, all writers will tell you that it is the very thing which can least of all be changed. A man's style is nearly as much a part of him as his physiognomy, his figure, the throbbing of his pulse, - in short, as any part of his being which is at least subjected to the action of the will. [ Fenelon ]

Men pursue riches under the idea that their possession will set them at pace, and above the world. But the law of association often makes those who begin by loving gold as a servant finish by becoming themselves its slaves; and independence without wealth is at least as common as wealth without independence. [ Colton ]

Neutrality in things good or evil is both odious and prejudicial; but in matters of an indifferent nature is safe and commendable. Herein taking of parts maketh sides, and breaketh unity. In an unjust cause of separation, he that favoreth both parts may perhaps have least love of either side, but hath most charity in himself. [ Bishop Hall ]

No man ever stood lower in my estimation for having a patch in his clothes; yet I am sure there is greater anxiety to have fashionable, or at least clean and unpatched clothes, than to have a sound conscience. I sometimes try my acquaintances by some such test as this - who could wear a patch, or two extra seams only, over the knee. [ Thoreau ]

Equality is deemed by many a mere speculative chimera, which can never be reduced to practice. But if the abuse is inevitable, does it follow that we ought not to try at least to mitigate it? It is precisely because the force of things tends always to destroy equality that the force of the legislature must always tend to maintain it. [ Rousseau ]

Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; the passions are powerful pleaders, and their very silence, like that of Garrick, goes directly to the soul, but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in; it is the quackery of eloquence, and deals in nostrums, not in cures. [ Colton ]

Quality and title have such allurements that hundreds are ready to give up all their own importance, to cringe. to flatter, to look little, and to pall every pleasure in constraint, merely to be among the great, though without the least hopes of improving their understanding or sharing their generosity. They might be happier among their equals. [ Goldsmith ]

Plutarch tells us of an idle and effeminate Etrurian who found fault with the manner in which Themistocles had conducted a recent campaign. What, said the hero in reply, have you, too, something to say about war, who are like the fish that has a sword, but no heart? He is always the severest censor on the merits of others who has the least worth of his own. [ E. L. Magoon ]

There is scare any lot so low, but there is something in it to satisfy the man whom it has befallen, Providence having so ordered things, that in every man's cup how bitter soever, there are some cordial drops, some good circumstances, which if wisely extracted, are sufficient for the purpose he wants them, that is, to make him contented, and if not happy, at least resigned. [ Sterne ]

There is this difference between those two temporal blessings, health and money: Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed; health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied: and this superiority of the latter is still more obvious when we reflect that the poorest man would not part with health for money, but that the richest would gladly part with all their money for heath. [ Colton ]

Those who worship gold in a world so corrupt as this we live in have at least one thing to plead in defense of their idolatry - the power of their idol. It is true that, like other idols, it can neither move, see, hear, feel, nor understand; but, unlike other idols, it has often communicated all these powers to those who had them not, and annihilated them in those who had. This idol can boast of two peculiarities; it is worshipped in all climates, without a single temple, and by all classes, without a single hypocrite. [ Colton ]

Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them. I wasn't myself, I started poor. I hadn't a single moral. There is hardly a man in this house that is poorer than I was then. Yes, I started like that - the world before me, not a moral in the slot. Not even an insurance moral. I can remember the first one I ever got. I can remember the landscape, the weather, the - I can remember how everything looked. It was an old moral, an old second-hand moral, all out of repair, and didn't fit, anyway. But if you are careful with a thing like that, and keep it in a dry place, and save it for processions, and Chautauquas, and World's Fairs, and so on, and disinfect it now and then, and give it a fresh coat of whitewash once in a while, you will be surprised to see how well she will last and how long she will keep sweet, or at least inoffensive. When I got that mouldy old moral, she had stopped growing, because she hadn't any exercise; but I worked her hard, I worked her Sundays and all. Under this cultivation she waxed in might and stature beyond belief, and served me well and was my pride and joy for sixty-three years; then she got to associating with insurance presidents, and lost flesh and character, and was a sorrow to look at and no longer competent for business. She was a great loss to me. Yet not all loss. I sold her - ah, pathetic skeleton, as she was - I sold her to Leopold, the pirate King of Belgium; he sold her to our Metropolitan Museum, and it was very glad to get her, for without a rag on, she stands 57 feet long and 16 feet high, and they think she's a brontosaur. Well, she looks it. They believe it will take nineteen geological periods to breed her match. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]

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The word least is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 5

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters least:

TESLA
(18)
SETAL
(18)
LEAST
(18)
TEALS
(18)
LEAST
(18)
TEALS
(18)
LEAST
(18)
LEAST
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TALES
(18)
TALES
(18)
TALES
(18)
SETAL
(18)
SETAL
(18)
SETAL
(18)
TEALS
(18)
STEAL
(18)
STEAL
(18)
STEAL
(18)
STEAL
(18)
SLATE
(18)
STALE
(18)
STALE
(18)
SLATE
(18)
STALE
(18)
SLATE
(18)
STALE
(18)
SLATE
(18)
TEALS
(18)
TALES
(18)
TESLA
(18)
TESLA
(18)
TESLA
(18)
 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word least

LEAST
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LEAST
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LEAST
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LEAST
(18)
LEAST
(15)
LEAST
(15)
LEAST
(15)
LEAST
(14)
LEAST
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LEAST
(12)
LEAST
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LEAST
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LEAST
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LEAST
(10)
LEAST
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LEAST
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LEAST
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LEAST
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LEAST
(9)
LEAST
(7)
LEAST
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LEAST
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LEAST
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LEAST
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LEAST
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LEAST
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LEAST
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LEAST
(6)
LEAST
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LEAST
(5)

The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In least

TESLA
(18)
SETAL
(18)
LEAST
(18)
TEALS
(18)
LEAST
(18)
TEALS
(18)
LEAST
(18)
LEAST
(18)
TALES
(18)
TALES
(18)
TALES
(18)
SETAL
(18)
SETAL
(18)
SETAL
(18)
TEALS
(18)
STEAL
(18)
STEAL
(18)
STEAL
(18)
STEAL
(18)
SLATE
(18)
STALE
(18)
STALE
(18)
SLATE
(18)
STALE
(18)
SLATE
(18)
STALE
(18)
SLATE
(18)
TEALS
(18)
TALES
(18)
TESLA
(18)
TESLA
(18)
TESLA
(18)
LATE
(15)
EAST
(15)
EAST
(15)
SLAT
(15)
SLATE
(15)
LETS
(15)
STALE
(15)
SLATE
(15)
STEAL
(15)
STEAL
(15)
SEAT
(15)
SALE
(15)
STEAL
(15)
LEAS
(15)
LAST
(15)
SLATE
(15)
LEAS
(15)
SETA
(15)
TESLA
(15)
SETA
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SETAL
(15)
LAST
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TESLA
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EATS
(15)
SALE
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TALE
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TALE
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SLAT
(15)
SEAL
(15)
TALES
(15)
LATE
(15)
TALES
(15)
SETAL
(15)
ALES
(15)
TALES
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SETAL
(15)
LEAST
(15)
SEAT
(15)
LEAST
(15)
TEALS
(15)
TEAS
(15)
LEST
(15)
STALE
(15)
SATE
(15)
ALES
(15)
LEST
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SATE
(15)
STALE
(15)
SALT
(15)
TEAL
(15)
ETAS
(15)
TEAS
(15)
SALT
(15)
EATS
(15)
TEALS
(15)
SEAL
(15)
TESLA
(15)
ETAS
(15)
TEALS
(15)
LETS
(15)
LEAST
(15)
TEAL
(15)
TESLA
(14)
SETAL
(14)
SETAL
(14)
STALE
(14)
STEAL
(14)
STEAL
(14)
TESLA
(14)
TALES
(14)
SLATE
(14)
TEALS
(14)
SLATE
(14)
STALE
(14)
LEAST
(14)
LEAST
(14)
TALES
(14)
TEALS
(14)
SALE
(12)
SLAT
(12)
LETS
(12)
ETAS
(12)
SLATE
(12)
SALE
(12)
SLATE
(12)
SALE
(12)
SLATE
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SALE
(12)
LAST
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SLAT
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LAST
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SLAT
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LAST
(12)
SLATE
(12)
LETS
(12)
SATE
(12)
SLAT
(12)
SEAL
(12)
SEAL
(12)
LEAST
(12)
LEAST
(12)
LETS
(12)
LEAST
(12)
SALT
(12)
LEAST
(12)
SALT
(12)
SEAL
(12)
SEAT
(12)
LEST
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SATE
(12)
SEAL
(12)
LEST
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SATE
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LEST
(12)
LEST
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SATE
(12)
SEAT
(12)
LEAS
(12)
LAST
(12)
LETS
(12)
SETAL
(12)
LATE
(12)
LATE
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SETAL
(12)
SALT
(12)
SETAL
(12)
LATE
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SETAL
(12)
LATE
(12)
SEAT
(12)
SETA
(12)
SETA
(12)
SETA
(12)
SETA
(12)
LEAS
(12)
LEAS
(12)
SALT
(12)
SEAT
(12)
LEAS
(12)
ETAS
(12)
ETAS
(12)
TEALS
(12)
EATS
(12)
STEAL
(12)
TEAS
(12)
TESLA
(12)
TALES
(12)
TEAL
(12)
EATS
(12)
TESLA
(12)
EAST
(12)
ALES
(12)
TALE
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ALES
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TALE
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TALE
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STEAL
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ALES
(12)
EATS
(12)
TALE
(12)
EATS
(12)
EAST
(12)
TALES
(12)
TEALS
(12)
TALES
(12)
EAST
(12)
TALES
(12)
ALES
(12)

least in Words With Friends™

The word least is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 6

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters least:

TESLA
(30)
SETAL
(30)
STALE
(30)
TEALS
(30)
LEAST
(30)
SLATE
(30)
STEAL
(30)
 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word least

LEAST
(30)
LEAST
(24)
LEAST
(24)
LEAST
(24)
LEAST
(24)
LEAST
(20)
LEAST
(18)
LEAST
(18)
LEAST
(18)
LEAST
(16)
LEAST
(16)
LEAST
(14)
LEAST
(14)
LEAST
(14)
LEAST
(12)
LEAST
(12)
LEAST
(12)
LEAST
(12)
LEAST
(12)
LEAST
(12)
LEAST
(12)
LEAST
(11)
LEAST
(10)
LEAST
(10)
LEAST
(10)
LEAST
(9)
LEAST
(9)
LEAST
(9)
LEAST
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LEAST
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LEAST
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LEAST
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LEAST
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LEAST
(8)
LEAST
(8)
LEAST
(7)
LEAST
(7)
LEAST
(7)
LEAST
(7)
LEAST
(6)

The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In least

TESLA
(30)
SETAL
(30)
STALE
(30)
TEALS
(30)
LEAST
(30)
SLATE
(30)
STEAL
(30)
LATE
(27)
LEST
(27)
TEAL
(27)
SEAL
(27)
LAST
(27)
LETS
(27)
LEAS
(27)
STEAL
(24)
STEAL
(24)
STEAL
(24)
TALES
(24)
TALES
(24)
TALES
(24)
TALES
(24)
TALES
(24)
TEALS
(24)
TEALS
(24)
TEALS
(24)
STEAL
(24)
SLATE
(24)
STALE
(24)
STALE
(24)
STALE
(24)
STALE
(24)
SLATE
(24)
SLATE
(24)
SETAL
(24)
SETAL
(24)
SETAL
(24)
LEAST
(24)
LEAST
(24)
LEAST
(24)
LEAST
(24)
SETAL
(24)
TEALS
(24)
SLATE
(24)
TESLA
(24)
TESLA
(24)
TESLA
(24)
TESLA
(24)
LAST
(21)
LEAS
(21)
SALT
(21)
ALES
(21)
LEST
(21)
TEAL
(21)
SALE
(21)
SALT
(21)
SLAT
(21)
ALES
(21)
SEAL
(21)
TALE
(21)
LATE
(21)
LETS
(21)
TALE
(21)
SLAT
(21)
SALE
(21)
LEAST
(20)
SETAL
(20)
STEAL
(20)
SLATE
(18)
EAST
(18)
STEAL
(18)
SATE
(18)
SEAT
(18)
SLATE
(18)
TALES
(18)
TESLA
(18)
SEAT
(18)
TESLA
(18)
STALE
(18)
STALE
(18)
STALE
(18)
TALES
(18)
ETAS
(18)
EATS
(18)
ETAS
(18)
TALES
(18)
EATS
(18)
STEAL
(18)
STEAL
(18)
SETA
(18)
EAST
(18)
SLATE
(18)
SETAL
(18)
TEAS
(18)
TEAS
(18)
SETAL
(18)
TESLA
(18)
LEAST
(18)
SETAL
(18)
SATE
(18)
TEALS
(18)
LEAST
(18)
TEALS
(18)
TEALS
(18)
LEAST
(18)
SETA
(18)
STALE
(16)
TESLA
(16)
TEALS
(16)
TESLA
(16)
TEALS
(16)
STALE
(16)
TEALS
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SETAL
(16)
STALE
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LEAST
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TESLA
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LEAST
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SLATE
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STEAL
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TALES
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SETAL
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STEAL
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(16)
SLATE
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SLATE
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SLAT
(15)
LEAS
(15)
LEST
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LEST
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LATE
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ALES
(15)
SALE
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LETS
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LEAS
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SEAL
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SLAT
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ALES
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SLAT
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LATE
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LEST
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LEAS
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LAST
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LEAS
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SALT
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SEAL
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TALE
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ALES
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SALE
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TEAL
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SEAL
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TEAL
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SALT
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SALE
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STALE
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SETAL
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STALE
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LETS
(14)
TESLA
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TALES
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TESLA
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TEALS
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LEAS
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SLATE
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LAST
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SLATE
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LATE
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TEALS
(14)
SLATE
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STEAL
(14)
SETAL
(14)
SEAL
(14)
TEALS
(14)
LEAST
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STEAL
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TESLA
(14)

Words within the letters of least

2 letter words in least (5 words)

3 letter words in least (11 words)

5 letter words in least (Anagrams) (8 words)

Words containing the sequence least

Words that start with least (3 words)

Words with least in them (1 word)

Words that end with least (1 word)

Word Growth involving least

Shorter words in least

as east

as leas

lea leas

Longer words containing least

leastways

leastwise