3 ADV [ADV adj/adv] You use more to indicate that something or someone has a greater amount of a quality than they used to or than is average or usual. □ Prison conditions have become more brutal. □ We can satisfy our basic wants more easily than in the past.
4 ADV If you say that something is more one thing than another, you mean that it is like the first thing rather than the second. □ The exhibition at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts is more a production than it is a museum display. □ He's more like a film star than a life-guard, really. □ She looked more sad than in pain. □ Sue screamed, not loudly, more in surprise than terror. □ She's more of a social animal than me.
5 ADV [ADV with v] If you do something more than before or more than someone else, you do it to a greater extent or more often. □ When we are tired, tense, depressed or unwell, we feel pain much more. □ What impressed me more was that she knew Tennessee Williams.
6 ADV [ADV after v] You can use more to indicate that something continues to happen for a further period of time. □ Things might have been different if I'd talked a bit more. ● PHRASE You can use some more to indicate that something continues to happen for a further period of time. □ We walked some more.
7 ADV [adv ADV , n ADV ] You use more to indicate that something is repeated. For example, if you do something 'once more', you do it again once. □ This train would stop twice more in the suburbs before rolling southeast toward Munich. □ The breathing exercises should be repeated several times more.
8 DET You use more to refer to an additional thing or amount. You can use 'a little', 'a lot', 'a bit', 'far' and 'much' in front of more . □ They needed more time to consider whether to hold an inquiry. ● ADJ [ADJ n] More is also an adjective. □ We stayed in Danville two more days. □ Are you sure you wouldn't like some more coffee? ● PRON More is also a pronoun. □ Oxfam has appealed to western nations to do more to help the refugees. □ 'None of them are very nice folks.'—'Tell me more.'
9 ADV You use more in conversations when you want to draw someone's attention to something interesting or important that you are about to say. □ The way we dress reflects who we are and, more interestingly, who we wish we could be. □ More seriously for him, there are members who say he is wrong on this issue.
10 PHRASE You can use more and more to indicate that something is becoming greater in amount, extent, or degree all the time. □ Her life was heading more and more where she wanted it to go.
11 PHRASE If something is more or less true, it is true in a general way, but is not completely true. [VAGUENESS ] □ The Conference is more or less over. □ He more or less started the firm.
12 PHRASE If something is more than a particular thing, it has greater value or importance than this thing. □ He's more than a coach, he's a friend.
13 PHRASE You use more than to say that something is true to a greater degree than is necessary or than average. □ Lithuania produces more than enough food to feed itself.
14 PHRASE You use no more than or not more than when you want to emphasize how small a number or amount is. [EMPHASIS ] □ He was a kid really, not more than eighteen or nineteen.
15 PHRASE If you say that someone or something is nothing more than a particular thing, you are emphasizing that they are only that thing, and nothing more interesting or important. [EMPHASIS ] □ The newly discovered notes are nothing more than Lang's personal journal.
16 PHRASE You can use what is more or what's more to introduce an extra piece of information which supports or emphasizes the point you are making. [EMPHASIS ] □ You should remember it, and what's more, you should get it right.
17 all the more → see all
18 any more → see any USAGE more
Don’t use more
with adjectives that have only one syllable. Don’t say, for example, ‘
more|ish /mɔː r I ʃ/ ADJ If you describe food as moreish , you mean that it is so nice that you want to keep eating more of it once you have started. [INFORMAL ] □ Thai food's very moreish, isn't it?
more|over ◆◇◇ /mɔːroʊ və r / ADV You use moreover to introduce a piece of information that adds to or supports the previous statement. [FORMAL ] □ There was a man immediately behind her. Moreover, he was observing her strangely. SYNONYMS moreover ADV
furthermore: Furthermore, they claim that any such interference is completely ineffective.
in addition: In addition, students can take classes in word-processing and computing.
also: He is an asthmatic who was also anaemic.
besides: Besides, I'd grown fond of our little rented house.
mo|res /mɔː re I z/ N‑PLURAL The mores of a particular place or group of people are the customs and behaviour that are typically found in that place or group. [FORMAL ] □ …the accepted mores of British society.
morgue /mɔː r g/ (morgues ) N‑COUNT A morgue is a building or a room in a hospital where dead bodies are kept before they are buried or cremated, or before they are identified or examined.
mori|bund /mɒ r I bʌnd, [AM ] mɔː r-/ ADJ If you describe something as moribund , you mean that it is in a very bad condition. [FORMAL ] □ …the moribund economy.
Mor|mon /mɔː r mən/ (Mormons ) ADJ Mormon means relating to the religion started by Joseph Smith in the United States. □ …the Mormon church. ● N‑COUNT Mormons are people who are Mormon.