Meanings
- not comparableEven, furthermore, not to mention.
He graduated this year — at the top of his class, no less!
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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), […]
2013 October 12, Stephanie Merritt, “Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy by Helen Fielding – review”, in The Observer, →ISSN“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.”
2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN - literallynot comparableJust as, equally, as much/many as, not less.
Diet sodas are no less unhealthy than regular ones.
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The driver had drunk no less than eight pints of beer.
Origin
- Middle Englishno lesse
- Englishno less
From Middle English no lesse, na leasse. Compare none the less and Old English nōhte þon lǣssa (“none the less”).
More words from Middle English
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Dutch maar liefst
- maar liefstfurthermore, not to mention
Finnish jopa, vieläpä
- jopafurthermore, not to mention
- vieläpäfurthermore, not to mention
German zumal, noch dazu
- zumalfurthermore, not to mention
- noch dazufurthermore, not to mention
Italian nientemeno, nientedimeno
- nientemenofurthermore, not to mention
- nientedimenofurthermore, not to mention
- nientepopodimenofurthermore, not to mention
Polish przy tym
- przy tymfurthermore, not to mention
Spanish nada menos, ni más ni menos
- nada menosfurthermore, not to mention
- ni más ni menosfurthermore, not to mention
- que se dice prontofurthermore, not to mention
- ahí es nadafurthermore, not to mention
- ahí que no es nada (disused)furthermore, not to mention
- que ya es decirfurthermore, not to mention
Turkish hem de, üstelik
- hem defurthermore, not to mention
- üstelikfurthermore, not to mention
Cite this entry
no less. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/no%20less
“no less.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/no%20less. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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