Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word MOST

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Definitions of MOST

1. To a great extent or degree; highly; very.
2. The greater part of a group, especially a group of people.
3. Forms the superlative of many adjectives.
4. (slang, dated) The greatest; the best.
5. (uncountable) The greatest amount.
6. (countable, uncountable) The greater part.
7. (countable) A record-setting amount.
8. (informal, chiefly, US) Almost.

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Examples of Using MOST in a Sentence

• Most algae are aquatic organisms and lack many of the distinct cell and tissue types, such as stomata, xylem and phloem that are found in land plants.
• Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who is widely held as one of the most influential scientists.
• In law, an abstract is a brief statement that contains the most important points of a long legal document or of several related legal papers.
• He succeeded his father Philip II to the throne in 336 BC at the age of 20 and spent most of his ruling years conducting a lengthy military campaign throughout Western Asia, Central Asia, parts of South Asia, and Egypt.
• He argued that human knowledge of the world is limited both by the human nervous system and the languages humans have developed, and thus no one can have direct access to reality, given that the most we can know is that which is filtered through the brain's responses to reality.
• The order is cosmopolitan (plants found throughout most of the world including desert and frigid zones), and includes mostly herbaceous species, although a small number of trees (such as the Lobelia deckenii, the giant lobelia, and Dendrosenecio, giant groundsels) and shrubs are also present.
• Arabic is the third most widespread official language after English and French, one of six official languages of the United Nations, and the liturgical language of Islam.
• Known as the "Master of Suspense", Hitchcock became as well known as any of his actors thanks to his many interviews, his cameo appearances in most of his films, and his hosting and producing the television anthology Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–65).
• The once-popular theory attributing these similarities to a common ancestry has long been rejected by most comparative linguists in favor of language contact, although it continues to be supported by a small but stable scholarly minority.
• A leading figure in the pop art movement, Warhol is considered one of the most important artists of the 20th century.
• He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema.
• Most of these diseases worsen over time; while some, such as ALS, shorten one's life expectancy, others do not.
• They are one of the most popular and successful musical groups of all time, and are one of the best-selling music acts in the history of popular music.
• He was one of the most popular and influential practitioners of science fiction in the mid-twentieth century, the genre's so-called Golden Age, and one of the most complex.
• At the peak of her fame, fans looking for images of Kournikova made her name one of the most common search strings on Google Search.
• Most species of Asteraceae are herbaceous plants, and may be annual, biennial, or perennial, but there are also shrubs, vines, and trees.
• Poirot is one of Christie's most famous and long-running characters, appearing in 33 novels, two plays (Black Coffee and Alibi), and 51 short stories published between 1920 and 1975.
• The aspect ratio is most often expressed as two integer numbers separated by a colon (x:y), less commonly as a simple or decimal fraction.
• These provide the most valuable examples of a genre of comic drama known as Old Comedy and are used to define it, along with fragments from dozens of lost plays by Aristophanes and his contemporaries.
• In many areas of the world, the most common bacteria present is methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
• His most famous works are The Book of Healing, a philosophical and scientific encyclopedia, and The Canon of Medicine, a medical encyclopedia which became a standard medical text at many medieval European universities and remained in use as late as 1650.
• Athena was regarded as the patron and protectress of various cities across Greece, particularly the city of Athens, from which she most likely received her name.
• An alloy is a mixture of chemical elements of which in most cases at least one is a metallic element, although it is also sometimes used for mixtures of elements; herein only metallic alloys are described.
• American Sign Language (ASL) is a natural language that serves as the predominant sign language of Deaf communities in the United States and most of Anglophone Canada.
• Although over 500 amino acids exist in nature, by far the most important are the 22 α-amino acids incorporated into proteins.

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