least : Idioms & Phrases

• adverb if nothing else (`leastwise' is informal and `leastways' is colloquial)
  at any rate; leastways; leastwise.
  
  • at least he survived
  • they felt--at any rate Jim felt--relieved though still wary
  • the influence of economists--or at any rate of economics--is far-reaching
• adverb not less than
  at least.
  
  • at least two hours studying the manual
  • a tumor at least as big as an orange

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• . See Least and However.

Webster 1913

• at the least estimate, consideration, chance, etc.; hence, at any rate; at all events; even. See However.

  He who tempts, though in vain, at least asperses The tempted with dishonor. Milton.

  Upon the mast they saw a young man, at least if he were a man, who sat as on horseback. Sir P. Sidney.

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• adverb not less than
  at least.
  
  • at least two hours studying the manual
  • a tumor at least as big as an orange

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• in the least degree, manner, etc. "He that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much." Luke xvi. 10.

Webster 1913

• adverb to any extent at all
  even a little.
  
  • are you in the least interested?
• adverb in the slightest degree or in any respect
  at all; in the least.
  
  • Are you at all interested? No, not at all
  • was not in the least unfriendly

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• adverb in addition to all the foregoing
  last but not least.
  
  • last not least he plays the saxophone

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• adverb in addition to all the foregoing
  last but not least.
  
  • last not least he plays the saxophone

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• noun small American bittern
  Ixobrychus exilis.
  

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• noun the smallest multiple that is exactly divisible by every member of a set of numbers
  lcm; lowest common multiple.
  
  • the least common multiple of 12 and 18 is 36

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• noun the least effortful way to do something
  least effort.
  

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• adverb especially not
  
  • nobody, least of all Joe, agreed with me

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• noun the least effortful way to do something
  least effort.
  

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• noun smallest American sandpiper
  Erolia minutilla; stint.
  

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• noun small brown shrew of grassy regions of eastern United States
  Cryptotis parva.
  

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• noun a method of fitting a curve to data points so as to minimize the sum of the squares of the distances of the points from the curve
  least squares.
  

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• (Math.), a method of deducing from a number of carefully made yet slightly discordant observations of a phenomenon the most probable values of the unknown quantities. It takes as its fundamental principle that the most probable values are those which make the sum of the squares of the residual errors of the observation a minimum.

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• noun the easiest way
  line of least resistance.
  
  • In marrying him she simply took the path of least resistance

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• noun a method of fitting a curve to data points so as to minimize the sum of the squares of the distances of the points from the curve
  least squares.
  

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• noun of Canada and northeastern United States
  Mustela rixosa.
  

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• noun of Europe
  Mustela nivalis.
  

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• noun the easiest way
  line of least resistance.
  
  • In marrying him she simply took the path of least resistance

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• (Mech.), a solid of such a form as to experience, in moving in a fluid, less resistance than any other solid having the same base, height, and volume.

Webster 1913

• adverb in the slightest degree or in any respect
  at all; in the least.
  
  • Are you at all interested? No, not at all
  • was not in the least unfriendly

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