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Wordnet 3.0

ADVERB (2)

1. to any extent at all;
- Example: "are you in the least interested?"
[syn: in the least, even a little]

2. in the slightest degree or in any respect;
- Example: "Are you at all interested? No, not at all"
- Example: "was not in the least unfriendly"
[syn: at all, in the least, the least bit]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Least \Least\ (l[=e]st), a. [OE. last, lest, AS. l[=ae]sast, l[=ae]sest, superl. of l[=ae]ssa less. See Less, a.] [Used as the superlative of little.] Smallest, either in size or degree; shortest; lowest; most unimportant; as, the least insect; the least mercy; the least space. [1913 Webster] Note: Least is often used with the, as if a noun. [1913 Webster] I am the least of the apostles. --1 Cor. xv. 9. [1913 Webster] At least, or At the least, at the least estimate, consideration, chance, etc.; being no less than; hence, at any rate; at all events; even. See However. [1913 Webster] He who tempts, though in vain, at least asperses The tempted with dishonor. --Milton. [1913 Webster] Upon the mast they saw a young man, at least if he were a man, who sat as on horseback. --Sir P. Sidney. In least, or In the least, in the least degree, manner, etc. "He that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much." --Luke xvi. 10. Least squares (Math.), a method of deducing from a number of carefully made yet slightly discordant observations of a phenomenon the most probable values of the unknown quantities. Note: It takes as its fundamental principle that the most probable values are those which make the sum of the squares of the residual errors of the observation a minimum. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

in the least adv 1: to any extent at all; "are you in the least interested?" [syn: in the least, even a little] 2: in the slightest degree or in any respect; "Are you at all interested? No, not at all"; "was not in the least unfriendly" [syn: at all, in the least, the least bit]