no less
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.43 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
Example Sentences
- "He graduated this year — at the top of his class, no less!"
- "By making her a widow, Fielding allows Mark Darcy to remain as implausibly perfect in death as he was in life (killed by a landmine while negotiating the release of aid workers in Sudan, no less), […]"
- "“You have a young son, yet you involve yourself in the world of organised crime. Robbing a bank no less! Stealing half a million pounds! Money, I might add, that has never been recovered. You must know where the money is hidden, and yet, Mr Goodie, you refuse to inform the police. You must have had accomplices, but you will not name them. This no doubt is the criminals’ code of honour.”"
- "Diet sodas are no less unhealthy than regular ones."
- "The driver had drunk no less than eight pints of beer."
Etymology
From Middle English no lesse, na leasse. Compare none the less and Old English nōhte þon lǣssa (“none the less”).