in the least

Speech parts

1. in the least - Adverb

2. in the least - Phrase

Meaning

in the slightest degree or in any respect

to any extent at all

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

at all even a little any somewhat whatever whatsoever remotely the least bit of any kind not a bit some extent any at all at the smallest even remotely in any manner
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Antonyms

so

Examples

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean. Socrates

The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else. George Bernard Shaw

Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space. Orson Scott Card

Brisk and prompt to war, soft and not in the least able to resist calamity, fickle in catching at schemes, and always striving after novelties - French characteristics remained unaltered twenty centuries after Julius Caesar made a note of them for all time. Frederick Rolfe

Just as the liar 's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe any one else; so a guilty society can more easily be persuaded that any apparently innocent act is guilty than that any apparently guilty act is innocent. George Bernard Shaw

I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least. Walt Whitman

Words in the phrase

in the least

Close letter words and terms

in the latter end in the laundry basket in the lead in the least bit in the ledger in the left ventricle