or so

Speech parts

1. or so - Adverb

2. or so - Phrase

Meaning

(of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

some around approximately roughly more or less close to just about about near almost nearly thereabouts well-nigh thereabout give or take
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Antonyms

out far square bang plumb completely
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Examples

Of all our dreams today there is none more important - or so hard to realise - than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality. Lester B. Pearson

Frankly, despite my distaste of the press, I'd love to rise from the grave every ten years or so and go buy a few newspapers. Luis Buñuel

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood. James Madison

Oh, yeah, I love DVD's. I don't have what you'd call an extensive collection, maybe a couple of hundred or so. But I have something on almost all the time. David Fincher

No man is so young he cannot teach, or so old he cannot learn. Darkovan Proverb

Who is so deaf or so blind as he that willfully will neither hear nor see? English Proverb

Words in the phrase

or so

Close letter words and terms

or privilege or rather or similar things or some such or something or such as