MUCH LESS


Meaning of MUCH LESS in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ conjunction ]

Date: 1615

: not to mention — used especially in negative contexts to add to one item another denoting something less likely

can hardly grow, much less ripen, till the stock is in the earth — Jonathan Swift

he is never going to get out of the eighth grade, much less ever make it to college — Thomas Meehan

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary.      Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster.