any more

See also: anymore

English

Alternative forms

• anymore

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(r)

Adverb

any more (not comparable)

1. (in negative or interrogative constructions) From a given time onwards; longer, again.

   They don't make repairable radios any more.

2. (colloquial, chiefly Northern Ireland, US, in positive constructions) Now, from now on.
   • 1920, DH Lawrence, Women in Love:

     ‘Quite absurd,’ he said. ‘Suffering bores me, any more.’

   • 2009, Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice, Vintage 2010, page 268:

     He's no longer the wholesome Chamber of Commerce bigshot we used to know in the olden days, Doc, he's bad shit anymore.

3. To a greater extent (than).

   I don't like Braque any more than I like Picasso.

Translations

in negative or interrogative constructions

• Armenian: այլևս (aylews), էլ (hy) (ēl)
• Catalan: més (ca), per més temps
• Dutch: meer (nl), langer (nl)
• Finnish: enää (fi)
• French: plus (fr)
• German: nicht mehr
• Greek: άλλο (állo)
• Hungarian: többé (hu), már (hu)
• Ido: pluse (io)

• Italian: più (it)
• Latin: iam (la)
• Polish: już (nie)
• Portuguese: mais (pt)
• Romanian: mai (ro)
• Russian: бо́льше (ru) (bólʹše)
• Slovak: už nie, už viac (nie)
• Spanish: ya (es), ya más
• Swedish: längre (sv)

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