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AT MOST
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not more than
Example:
spend at most $20 on the lunch
Synonyms:
at most; at the most
Classified under:
Antonym:
at least (not less than)
Context examples:
These affirmed that it was pleasure enough to have the privilege of again looking on Mr. Rochester, whether he looked on me or not; and they added—Hasten! hasten! be with him while you may: but a few more days or weeks, at most, and you are parted from him for ever!
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
My timid station on his threshold was not occupied more than a couple of minutes at most; but I came down again with all this in my knowledge, as surely as the knife and fork were in my hand.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I consulted the most experienced seamen upon the depth of the channel, which they had often plumbed; who told me, that in the middle, at high-water, it was seventy glumgluffs deep, which is about six feet of European measure; and the rest of it fifty glumgluffs at most.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
She has not told Lucy, and made me promise secrecy; her doctor told her that within a few months, at most, she must die, for her heart is weakening.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
