noun
definition
The greatest amount.
example
The most I can offer for the house is $150,000.
definition
The greater part.
example
Most of the penguins were friendly and curious.
definition
A record-setting amount.
adverb
definition
Forms the superlative of many adjectives.
example
Correctness is most important.
definition
To a great extent or degree; highly; very.
example
This is a most unusual specimen.
definition
Superlative of many
definition
Superlative of much
pronoun
definition
The greater part of a group, especially a group of people.
example
Most want the best for their children.
Examples of most in a Sentence
Most people will tell you anything you want to know.
He was our most famous president.
It's isolated and lonely and I'm gone most of every day.
Most of all, he wanted to change the subject.
Dampening her scarf, she closed her eyes and wiped most of the dust from her face.
Time is most precious...
You are the most beautiful woman in the room tonight.
This will take us most of the way.
Of course, most of the boys she dated were much younger than Yancey.
I guess he's always been a part of me... one I've wasted most of my life trying to remove.
That is because they seem so far out of the daily experience of most people that they cannot conceive of how or why they would use them.
One of the most appealing things about Alex was his confidence.
In fact, the thing she found most attractive about Brandon was his smile.
Most of the old men answered that they did not know of any such person.
Most people buy Apple TV, but a few buy the Roku XDS Streaming Player.
And most of them are harmful, especially the women.
The theory of pricing means people who want items the most choose to buy those items instead of others they could buy.
Most of the ranchers are barely getting along as it is.
These, to me, are the most exciting companies to look at.
The computers would then see that most people who got better bought their radishes in stores stocked from certain farms.
His eyes were captivating, by far the most attractive feature in his darkly handsome face.
Wars in that same period—the most destructive wars in all of history—took a fraction of that number.
You are the most beautiful woman I have ever seen.
She had the most expressive face he had ever seen.
I think you're the most perfect person I've ever met.
Most of the time I'm at the pool or resting in the air conditioned house.
Because military accomplishments were one way to do that, the military attracted the most ambitious young men eager to prove themselves—and "proving themselves" meant battle.
Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
Most of the boys she dated would never have thought of practicing the age-old custom of walking around the car to open her door, or guiding her through the crowd with a gentle hand on one elbow.
He's gone most of the time, but he doesn't have a job?
Lest I try the patience of my readers, I will offer, in no particular order, forty-three that seem most worthy.
I guarded both doll and cradle with the most jealous care; but once I discovered my little sister sleeping peacefully in the cradle.
Those were extremes, no doubt, but they are not what is most important.
We will still take all the most necessary things.
I've planned most of my life to get where I am now.
They kept their emotions at bay for the most part.
Did most people want him?
We are most horrified by that which strikes closest to us and reminds us of our own mortality.
While agriculture itself is a technology, it is, in its most basic form, extremely low tech.
In most books, the I, or first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference.
Let us consider for a moment what most of the trouble and anxiety which I have referred to is about, and how much it is necessary that we be troubled, or at least careful.
There are some who complain most energetically and inconsolably of any, because they are, as they say, doing their duty.
Even in the best, most friendly and simplest relations of life, praise and commendation are essential, just as grease is necessary to wheels that they may run smoothly.
Like all infantry officers he wore no mustache, so that his mouth, the most striking feature of his face, was clearly seen.
Moment by moment the event is imperceptibly shaping itself, and at every moment of this continuous, uninterrupted shaping of events the commander-in-chief is in the midst of a most complex play of intrigues, worries, contingencies, authorities, projects, counsels, threats, and deceptions and is continually obliged to reply to innumerable questions addressed to him, which constantly conflict with one another.
Of all the affairs awaiting Pierre that day the sorting of Joseph Bazdeev's books and papers appeared to him the most necessary.
Napoleon's position is most brilliant.
Which was most delighted?
This might be the most difficult decision she would ever make.
This was the most perfect place in the world.