no less
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English no lesse, na leasse. Compare none the less and Old English nōhte þon lǣssa (“none the less”).
Adverb edit
no less (not comparable)
- Even, furthermore, not to mention.
- He graduated this year — at the top of his class, no less!
- 2013 October 12, Stephanie Merritt, “Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy by Helen Fielding – review”, in The Observer[1], →ISSN:
- 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), […]
- 2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
- “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.”
- (literally) Just as, equally, as much/many as, not less, none the less.
- Diet sodas are no less unhealthy than regular ones.
- The driver had drunk no less than eight pints of beer.
Translations edit
furthermore, not to mention
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