Brunt vs Most - What's the difference?
brunt | most |
The full adverse effects of; the chief consequences or negative results of a thing or event.
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The major part of; the bulk.
* If you feel tired of walking, just think of the poor donkey who has carried the brunt of our load.
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Superlative form of much.
Superlative form of many.
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, chapter=1 To a great extent or degree; highly; very.
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(uncountable) The greatest amount.
(countable) A record-setting amount.
As nouns the difference between brunt and most
is that brunt is the full adverse effects of; the chief consequences or negative results of a thing or event while most is the greatest amount.As a determiner most is
superlative form of much.As an adverb most is
superlative form of many.brunt
English
Noun
(en noun)- Unfortunately, poor areas such as those in New Orleans bore the brunt of Hurricane Katrina's winds.
- Though the storm raged up the East Coast, it has become increasingly apparent that New Jersey took the brunt of it.
Anagrams
* ---- ==Norwegian Bokmål==Adjective
(head)most
English
Determiner
(en determiner)- Most people like chocolate.
- Most simply choose to ignore it.
- Most want the best for their children.
Synonyms
* almost allAdverb
(-)citation, passage=The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen.
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Dams endanger ecology of Himalayas, passage=Most of the Himalayan rivers have been relatively untouched by dams near their sources. Now the two great Asian powers, India and China, are rushing to harness them as they cut through some of the world's deepest valleys.}}
Boundary problems, passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most -used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.}}
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=With some of it on the south and more of it on the north of the great main thoroughfare that connects Aldgate and the East India Docks, St.?Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the' poorest and ' most miserable parish in the East End of London.}}
citation, passage=“[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes
Antonyms
* fewest * leastDerived terms
* -most * make the most of * mostly * foremostNoun
(en-noun)- The most I can offer for the house is $150,000.
