at most

Speech parts

1. at most - Adverb

2. at most - Phrase

Meaning

not more than

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

at the most at the outside only just most simply maximum merely at best maximally nothing but at the very most not more than in the best of cases at the very outside
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Antonyms

at least at the least at the very least at the minimum not only not just that
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Examples

Science is progressing at such a rapid rate that when you make a prediction and think you are ahead of your time by 100 years you may be ahead of your time by 10 at most. Leó Szilárd

The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness. Joseph Conrad

Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks; without it, all other components of social justice are meaningless. Norman Borlaug

As a writer, I am not goddess of the universes I create. I am at most a stage manager of the plentiful gifts which tumble out of the horn of plenty, which is to say there is a source so sweet and forgiving and generous that I pray every day to let that source be my guide. Rebecca Wells

A saint is one to be for two when three and you make five and two and cover. A at most. Saint saint a saint. Gertrude Stein

If those extra-social brains are so potent, why after all do they effect so little? A dull police-officer, with the machine behind him, can afford to laugh at most experiments in anarchy. John Buchan

Words in the phrase

at most

Close letter words and terms

at minimum setting on motor control at minimum speed at moderate speed at mount at mount rushmore at national level