more or less

See also: more-or-less

English

more or less (not comparable)

approximately
There are hundred people in the room, more or less.
- 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 5:
  The sporophyte foot is also characteristic: it is very broad and more or less lenticular or disciform, as broad or broader than the calyptra stalk […] , and is sessile on the calyptra base […]
almost
I've more or less guaranteed myself a top mark in my final exams.

approximately

Albanian: pak a shumë
Arabic: حَوَالِي‎ (ḥawālī)
Asturian: más o menos
Bulgarian: малко или много (malko ili mnogo)
Catalan: més o menys, si fa no fa (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 大約 (zh), 大约 (zh) (dàyuē), 左右 (zh) (zuǒyòu), 將近 (zh), 将近 (zh) (jiāngjìn), 大致 (zh) (dàzhì), 或多或少 (zh) (huòduōhuòshǎo), 大概 (zh) (dàgài)
Danish: mere eller mindre
Dutch: min of meer
Esperanto: pli-malpli
Finnish: enemmän tai vähemmän
French: peu ou prou (fr), plus ou moins (fr)
Middle French: poy plus poy moins
Galician: máis ou menos
German: mehr oder weniger, ungefähr (de)
Greek: περισσότερο ή λιγότερο (perissótero í ligótero)
Hebrew: פחות או יותר‎
Hungarian: többé-kevésbé (hu)
Icelandic: um það bil (is), nokkurn veginn, sirka
Ido: plu o min

Italian: più o meno (it), su per giù (it), approssimativamente (it)
Japanese: およそ (ja) (oyoso), 約 (ja) (やく, yaku)
Latin: plūs minor
Lithuanian: daugiau ar mažiau
Norwegian:
Bokmål: mer eller mindre (no)

Nynorsk: meir eller mindre
Occitan: mai o mens
Polish: mniej więcej (pl)
Portuguese: mais ou menos (pt)
Romanian: mai mult sau mai puțin
Russian: бо́лее и́ли ме́нее (ru) (bóleje íli méneje), бо́лее-ме́нее (ru) (bóleje-méneje)
Serbo-Croatian: manje-više (sh)
Spanish: más o menos (es)
Swedish: mer eller mindre (sv)
Tagalog: humigit-kumulang
Telugu: ఎక్కువతక్కువగా (ekkuvatakkuvagā)
Urdu: کم و بیش‎ (kam-o-besh)
Yiddish: מער ווייניקער‎ (mer veyniker), מער אָדער ווייניקער‎ (mer oder veyniker)

almost

Albanian: pak a shumë
Bulgarian: малко или много (malko ili mnogo)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 幾乎 (zh), 几乎 (zh) (jīhū), 差點 (zh), 差点 (zh) (chàdiǎn), 差一點 (zh), 差一点 (zh) (chāyīdiǎn), 差不多 (zh) (chàbuduō)
Esperanto: pli aŭ malpli
Finnish: lähes (fi), enemmän tai vähemmän
French: plus ou moins (fr), presque (fr)
Galician: case (gl)
German: mehr oder weniger, fast (de)
Hungarian: félig-meddig (hu)

Icelandic: meira eða minna
Italian: quasi (it)
Japanese: ほとんど (ja) (hotondo)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: mer eller mindre (no)

Nynorsk: meir eller mindre
Portuguese: quase (pt)
Russian: бо́лее и́ли ме́нее (ru) (bóleje íli méneje), бо́лее-ме́нее (ru) (bóleje-méneje)
Spanish: casi (es)
Swedish: mer eller mindre (sv)

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