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/moʊr/

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adjective
(comparative of `much' used with mass nouns) a quantifier meaning greater in size or amount or extent or degree
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"more land" "more support" "more rain fell" "more than a gallon"

Similar:

more than

Opposite:

less
noun
English statesman who opposed Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon and was imprisoned and beheaded; recalled for his concept of Utopia, the ideal state
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sir thomas more thomas more
adverb
used to form the comparative of some adjectives and adverbs
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"more interesting" "more beautiful" "more quickly"

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to a greater extent

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less
adjective
(comparative of `many' used with count nouns) quantifier meaning greater in number
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"a hall with more seats" "we have no more bananas" "more than one"
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fewer
comparative of much; to a greater degree or extent
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"he works more now" "they eat more than they should"
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less

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"comparative"
"comparative degree"