English [ edit ]
Alternative forms [ edit ]
Pronunciation [ edit ]
more or less (not comparable )
Approximately .
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:approximately
There are hundred people in the room, more or less .
1992 , Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian , volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press , →ISBN , page 5:The sporophyte foot is also characteristic: it is very broad and more or less lenticular or disciform, as broad or broader than the calyptra stalk [ …] , and is sessile on the calyptra base [ …]
Almost .
I've more or less guaranteed myself a top mark in my final exams.
Translations [ edit ]
approximately
Albanian: pak a shumë
Arabic: حَوَالِي ( ḥawālī )
Asturian: más o menos
Bulgarian: малко или много ( malko ili mnogo )
Catalan: més o menys (ca) , si fa no fa (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 大約 / 大约 (zh) ( dàyuē ) , 左右 (zh) ( zuǒyòu ) , 將近 / 将近 (zh) ( jiāngjìn ) , 大致 (zh) ( dàzhì ) , 或多或少 (zh) ( huòduōhuòshǎo ) , 大概 (zh) ( dàgài )
Czech: víceméně (cs)
Danish: mere eller mindre
Dutch: min of meer
Esperanto: pli-malpli
Finnish: enemmän tai vähemmän
French: peu ou prou (fr) , plus ou moins (fr)
Middle French: poy plus poy moins
Galician: máis ou menos
Georgian: ასე თუ ისე ( ase tu ise )
German: mehr oder weniger , ungefähr (de) , mehr oder minder
Greek: περισσότερο ή λιγότερο ( perissótero í ligótero )
Hebrew: פחות או יותר
Hungarian: többé-kevésbé (hu)
Icelandic: um það bil (is) , nokkurn veginn , sirka
Ido: plu o min
Italian: più o meno (it) , su per giù (it) , approssimativamente (it)
Japanese: およそ (ja) ( oyoso ) , 約 (ja) ( やく, yaku )
Latin: plūs minus ve , magis minusve , amplius minusve , plūs minus
Lithuanian: daugiau ar mažiau
Norwegian:
Bokmål: mer eller mindre (no)
Nynorsk: meir eller mindre
Occitan: mai o mens (oc)
Polish: mniej więcej (pl) , z grubsza (pl)
Portuguese: mais ou menos (pt)
Romanian: mai mult sau mai puțin
Russian: бо́лее и́ли ме́нее (ru) ( bóleje íli méneje ) , бо́лее-ме́нее (ru) ( bóleje-méneje )
Serbo-Croatian: manje-više (sh)
Spanish: más o menos (es)
Swedish: mer eller mindre (sv)
Tagalog: humigit-kumulang
Telugu: ఎక్కువతక్కువగా ( ekkuvatakkuvagā )
Turkish: aşağı yukarı (tr)
Ukrainian: бі́льш-ме́нш (uk) ( bílʹš-ménš )
Urdu: کم و بیش ( kam-o-besh )
Welsh: mwy neu lai
Yiddish: מער ווייניקער ( mer veyniker ) , מער אָדער ווייניקער ( mer oder veyniker )
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