Idiom
not in the least
Meaning
not at all, not in any way
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“I am not in the least tired.”
“She was not in the least worried about the difficult exam because she had studied for weeks.”
“Although the critics dismissed his latest work as derivative, the author was not in the least discouraged by their harsh reviews.”
Examples
simple
“I am not in the least tired.”
contextual
“She was not in the least worried about the difficult exam because she had studied for weeks.”
complex
“Although the critics dismissed his latest work as derivative, the author was not in the least discouraged by their harsh reviews.”
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