AT MOST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does at most mean? 

• AT MOST (adverb)
  The adverb AT MOST has 1 sense:

1. not more than

  Familiarity information: AT MOST used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AT MOST (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not more than

Synonyms:

at most; at the most

Context example:

spend at most $20 on the lunch

Antonym:

at least (not less than)

 Context examples 

An injection (or injective, or one-to-one) such that for every y in Y there is at most one x in X such that f(x) equals y.

(Functional Relationship, NCI Thesaurus)

Though the sample will be small – only a couple of pounds at most – it will be a time capsule of sorts recording our solar system's creation.

(Evening Launch Catapults OSIRIS-REx Toward Asteroid Encounter, NASA)

It is comprised of the amino terminal half of the light chains and at most a third of the heavy chains from the amino termini.

(Immunoglobulin Variable Region, NCI Thesaurus)

The duration of my absence was left to my own choice; a few months, or at most a year, was the period contemplated.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

You can rely upon my being there within half an hour at most.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But, Lizzy, this must go no farther than yourself, or Jane at most.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

They had been diversions, incidents, part of the game men play, but a small part at most.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

We knew then that we were safe till morning did we desire it; but the Professor told me that we should not want more than an hour at most.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The unique galaxy, called NGC 1052-DF2, contains at most 1/400th the amount of dark matter that astronomers had expected.

(Dark Matter Goes Missing in Oddball Galaxy, NASA)

Whether she thought of him so much, while she drank her warm wine and water, and prepared herself for bed, as to dream of him when there, cannot be ascertained; but I hope it was no more than in a slight slumber, or a morning doze at most; for if it be true, as a celebrated writer has maintained, that no young lady can be justified in falling in love before the gentleman's love is declared,* it must be very improper that a young lady should dream of a gentleman before the gentleman is first known to have dreamt of her.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)