Definition of most

"most" in the adjective sense

1. most

superlative of `many' used with count nouns and often preceded by `the') quantifier meaning the greatest in number

"who has the most apples?"

"most people like eggs"

"most fishes have fins"

2. most

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

"made the most money he could"

"what attracts the most attention?"

"made the most of a bad deal"

"most" in the adverb sense

1. most, to the highest degree

used to form the superlative

"the king cobra is the most dangerous snake"

2. most

very

"a most welcome relief"

3. about, almost, most, nearly, near, nigh, virtually, well-nigh

of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished all but

"the job is (just) about done"

"the baby was almost asleep when the alarm sounded"

"we're almost finished"

"the car all but ran her down"

"he nearly fainted"

"talked for nigh onto 2 hours"

"the recording is well-nigh perfect"

"virtually all the parties signed the contract"

"I was near exhausted by the run"

"most everyone agrees"

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Quotations for most

Eyes of most unholy blue! [ Moore ]

He who loves most has most. [ Henry van Dyke ]

He that lives most dies most. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He that burns most shines most. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The most useful is the greatest. [ Theodore Parker ]

By education most have been misled. [ Dryden ]

He who knows most believes the least. [ Buckle ]

The most essential point is lowliness. [ Fenelon ]

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

The lie that flatters I abhor the most. [ Cowper ]

The most happy ought to wish for death. [ Seneca ]

Woman is most perfect when most womanly. [ Gladstone ]

Your noblest natures are most credulous. [ Chapman ]

The most seditious is the most cowardly. [ Tacitus ]

She most attracts who longest can refuse. [ Aaron Hill ]

The best known evil is the most tolerable. [ Livy ]

Habit is the most imperious of all masters. [ Goethe ]

The bravest men are subject most to chance. [ Dryden ]

Fire that's closest kept burns most of all. [ William Shakespeare ]

Brave deeds are most estimable when hidden. [ Pascal ]

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

The sense of death is most in apprehension. [ William Shakespeare ]

They who forgive most shall be most forgiven. [ Bailey ]

Who makes the fairest show means most deceit. [ William Shakespeare ]

Who seems most hideous when adorned the most. [ Ariosto ]

Much danger makes great hearts most resolute. [ Marston ]

Bad advice is often most fatal to the adviser. [ Flaccus ]

He who has most of heart, knows most of sorrow. [ Bailey ]

He who knows most grieves most for wasted time. [ Dante ]

The most curious offspring of shame is shyness. [ Sydney Smith ]

He that eats most porridge shall have most meat. [ Proverb ]

A coward; a most devout coward; religious in it. [ William Shakespeare ]

Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed. [ Pascal ]

It is common to esteem most what is most unknown. [ Tacitus ]

The ruin of most men dates from some idle moment. [ Hillard ]

The most tangible of all visible mysteries - fire. [ Leigh Hunt ]

Expense of time is the most costly of all expenses. [ Theophrastus ]

Generous souls are still most subject to credulity. [ Sir W. Davenant ]

False modesty is the most decent of all falsehoods. [ Chamfort ]

Almost always the most indigent are the most generous. [ Stanislaus ]

Gallantry thrives most in the atmosphere of the court. [ Mme. Necker ]

An enemy despised is the most dangerous of all enemies. [ Publius Syrus ]

Sure, occasion is the father of most that is good in us. [ Thackeray ]

The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out. [ Hazlitt ]

Religion is among the most powerful causes of enthusiasm. [ Burke ]

Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions. [ Thackeray ]

That is a most wretched fortune which is without an enemy. [ Publius Syrus ]

In man's most dark extremity 0"ft succor dawns from Heaven. [ Scott ]

The most manifest sign of wisdom is continued cheerfulness. [ Montaigne ]

Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong. [ Madame Necker ]

Fancy runs most furiously when a guilty conscience drives it. [ Fuller ]

Those faces which have charmed us most escape us the soonest. [ Walter Scott ]

God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home. [ Joseph Roux ]

Knowledge of our duties is the most useful part of philosophy. [ Whately ]

The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. [ Shaftesbury ]

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

The hatred of persons related to each other is the most violent. [ Tacitus ]

We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise. [ Emerson ]

It is the enemy whom we do not suspect who is the most dangerous. [ Rojas ]

The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Pride is the most uneasy thing in the world, and the most odious. [ Proverb ]

When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied. [ Tacitus ]

What most increases anger is the feeling that one is in the wrong. [ Richter ]

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

The most enthusiastic man in a cause is rarely chosen as a leader. [ Arthur Helps ]

Of two heroes, he who esteems his rivals the most is the greatest. [ Beaumelle ]

Learning hath gained most by those books by which printers have lost. [ Fuller ]

Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have. [ Greville ]

The most chaste woman may be the most voluptuous, if she truly loves. [ Mirabeau ]

The weakest and most timorous, are the most revengeful and implacable. [ Proverb ]

Friendship is the gift of the gods, and the most precious boon to man. [ Earl of Beaconsfield ]

A single grateful thought towards fiea%-en is the most perfect prayer. [ Lessing ]

Who knows most, doubts most; entertaining hope means recognizing fear. [ Browning ]

Self-made men are most always apt to be a little too proud of the job. [ H. W. Shaw ]

Truly great men are ever most heroic to those most intimate with them. [ John Ruskin ]

The books which help you most, are those which make you think the most. [ Theodore Parker ]

The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us. [ Mme. Swetchine ]

We should ask, not who is the most learned, but who is the best learned. [ Lady Montagu ]

Those gifts are ever the most acceptable which the giver makes precious. [ Ovid ]

The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener. [ Addison ]

Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive. [ Haliburton ]

Real excellence, indeed, is most recognized when most openly looked into. [ Plutarch ]

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

The most wretched fortune is safe; for there is no fear of anything worse. [ Ovid ]

The avaricious man is kind to no person, but he is most unkind to himself. [ Latin Proverb ]

Our domestic affections are the most salutary basis of all good government. [ Beaconsfield ]

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

The highest and most lofty trees have the most reason to dread the thunder. [ Rollin ]

The most important part of every business is to know what ought to be done. [ Columella ]

It is want of diligence rather than want of means that causes most failures. [ Alfred Mercier ]

The scorn of genius is the most arrogant and the most boundless of all scorn. [ Ouida ]

The most careful reasoning characters are very often the most easily abashed. [ Mme. de Stael ]

The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution. [ Seneca ]

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 ]

What we need most is not so much to realize the ideal as to idealize the real. [ F. H. Hedge ]

The most subtle flattery that a woman can receive is by actions, not by words. [ Mme. Necker ]

Most women indulge in idle gossip, which is the henchman of rumor and scandal. [ Octave Feuillet ]

The angriest person in a controversy is the one most liable to be in the wrong. [ Tillotson ]

Weeds are omnipresent; errors are to be found in the heart of the most lovable. [ George Sand ]

Amiability is very often a weakness, but the most unobjectionable one as a rule. [ Lady Morgan ]

most in Scrabble®

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Scrabble® Letter Score: 6

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most in Words With Friends™

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Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 7

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Words containing the sequence most

Words that start with most (2 words)

Word Growth involving most

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Longer words containing most

aftermost aftermostly

aftmost aftmostly

almost dorsalmost

almost ophthalmostases

almost ophthalmostasis

almost ophthalmostat ophthalmostatometer ophthalmostatometers

almost ophthalmostat ophthalmostats

almost ventralmost

atmostea atmosteal

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chemosterilant chemosterilants

chemostratigrapher chemostratigraphers

chemostratigraphic chemostratigraphically

chemostratigraphic chemostratigraphics

chemostratigraphist chemostratigraphists

chemostratigraphy

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demosthenean

demosthenic demosthenical demosthenically

dermostenosis

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dynamostat dynamostatic dynamostatically

dynamostat dynamostats

eastermost

eastmost

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entomostracan entomostracans

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farmost

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foremost foremostly

foremost headforemost

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foremost tailforemost

frontmost

furthermost

gamostelic

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haemostases

haemostasia

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haemostat haemostatic haemostatics

haemostat haemostats

headmost

hemostases electrohemostases

hemostasia

hemostasis electrohemostasis

hemostat chemostat chemostats

hemostat electrohemostat electrohemostatic

hemostat electrohemostat electrohemostats

hemostat hemostatic electrohemostatic

hemostat hemostatic hemostatics

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hiddenmost

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highmost

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hindmost

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homostyle homostyled

homostyle homostyles

homostylic

homostylism

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laemostenosis

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monimostylic

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omostegite

omosternal omosternally

omosternum omosternums

outermost

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pneumostrongylosis

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southermost

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sternmost easternmost northeasternmost

sternmost easternmost southeasternmost

sternmost westernmost northwesternmost

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thalamostriate thalamostriated

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thermostabilities

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