at the least

Speech parts

1. at the least - Adverb

2. at the least - Phrase

Meaning

not less than

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

at least at minimum bottom line rock bottom not less than smallest amount bare minimum no less than at the minimum at the very least at a lower limit least amount minimum of minimum requirement lowest possible

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Antonyms

at the most maximum at most at the outside at the very most not more than

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Examples

The calculus of utility aims at supplying the ordinary wants of man at the least cost of labour. William Stanley Jevons

Do not Bodies act upon Light at a distance, and by their action bend its Rays; and is not this action (caeteris paribus) [all else being equal] strongest at the least distance? Isaac Newton

This became Delacroix's theme: that the achievements of the spirit - all that a great library contained - were the result of a state of society so delicately balanced that at the least touch they would be crushed beneath an avalanche of pent-up animal forces. Kenneth Clark

When you talk about yourself for 35 years, first of all, it gets repetitious. And then it seems a little bit excessive, at the least. Lily Tomlin

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit. Victor Hugo

But what have those colourful ballets to do with the opera's? Ballets, that do not concern the opera at the least. Do they not spoil all possible action, that they in their course violently interrupt? Joseph Martin Kraus

Words in the phrase

at the least

Close letter words and terms

at the latest at the laundromat at the laundry at the least cost at the least possible cost at the level