AT THE LEAST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does at the least mean? 

• AT THE LEAST (adverb)
  The adverb AT THE LEAST has 1 sense:

1. not less than

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• AT THE LEAST (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not less than

Synonyms:

at least; at the least

Context example:

a tumor at least as big as an orange

Antonym:

at the most (not more than)

 Context examples 

Art surely no mere clerk, but bishop or cardinal at the least.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Sure enough it was a pile of playing-cards—forty packs, I should think, at the least—which had lain there ever since that tragic game which was played before I was born.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

By the bye, I must mind not to rise on your hearth with only a glass of water then: I must bring an egg at the least, to say nothing of fried ham.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

But Jo hated 'philandering', and wouldn't allow it, always having a joke or a smile ready at the least sign of impending danger.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Turner had a considerable household, some half-dozen at the least.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It’s attempted murder at the least.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I knew well that I risked death; for any drug that so potently controlled and shook the very fortress of identity, might, by the least scruple of an overdose or at the least inopportunity in the moment of exhibition, utterly blot out that immaterial tabernacle which I looked to it to change.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

It was like severing heart strings, when he was with Ruth, to stand up and go; and he scorched through the dark streets so as to get home to his books at the least possible expense of time.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“Mon Dieu! if a man could eat himself into knighthood, Humphrey, you had been a banneret at the least,” observed another, amid a burst of laughter.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“I’ve seen him half a dozen times at the least,” said Belcher.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)