more or less

• more-or-less

• (General American) IPA^(key): /mɔɹ ɔɹ lɛs/

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more or less (not comparable)

1. Approximately.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:approximately

   There are hundred people in the room, more or less.

   • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 5:

     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 […]

2. Almost.

   I've more or less guaranteed myself a top mark in my final exams.

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