Least

Determiner
(comparative less)


 * 1) ;The smallest amount of [something uncountable].
 * He earns the least money in his family.
 * Of all the sisters, she has the least patience.
 * I can only afford to pay the least of the bills.
 * 1) * 1857, Edmund March Blunt, The American Coast Pilot: Containing Directions for the Principal Harbors, E. & G.W. Blunt, page 135:
 * The least water we could find there was 4 fathoms, which bears from the point S.E., and is distant 1½ mile.
 * 1) * 2004, Jim Baggott, Beyond Measure: Modern Physics, Philosophy, and the Meaning of Quantum Theory, Oxford University Press, page 48:
 * Light does not need to know in advance which is the path of least time because it takes all paths from its source to its destination.

Adverb

 * 1) Used for forming superlatives of adjectives, especially those that do not form the superlative by adding -est.
 * It was the least surprising thing.

Antonyms

 * most

Thesaurus
at a disadvantage, at the nadir, below, below the mark, few, homely, humble, humble-looking, humble-visaged, humblest, in the gutter, inglorious, innocuous, least of all, less, littlest, low, lowest, lowliest, lowly, mean, minim, minimum, minority, minority group, modest, plain, poor, short of, shortest, simple, slightest, small, smallest, teachable, the few, the minority, under, under par, undistinguished, unimportant, unpretentious, we happy few

Determiner

 * Arabic: (’aqálla)
 * Chinese: 最少 (zuìshǎo)
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: vähin,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 最小の (さいしょうの, saishō no)
 * Korean: 가장 적게 (gajang jeokge)
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: наименьший
 * Serbo-Croatian: najmanji, minimalan
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:

Adverb

 * Finnish:
 * French: ;
 * Italian:

Derived terms

 * at least
 * last but not least
 * least bittern
 * least common denominator
 * least flycatcher
 * least of all
 * least resistance
 * least sandpiper


 * least shrew
 * least upper bound
 * least weasel
 * log-linear least-squares method
 * method of least squares
 * not the least bit
 * path of least resistance
 * to say the least

Anagrams

 * lates, leats, salet, setal, slate, stale, steal, stela, taels, tales, teals, tesla