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no more

no more adjective: not any more; no further.

Adjective

no more (not comparable)

  1. Not any more; no further.
    • There's no more wine.
    • Andy Jackson puts it more bluntly: "Just because we are off the naughty step doesn't mean we can stop doing stuff. It's far from 'no more action'.2026 July 8, Paul Clifton, “Brunel does the business”, in RAIL, number 1065, page 31
  2. (idiomatic) Dead, no longer in existence.
    • She held him until he was no more.
    • The USSR is no more.

Adverb

no more (not comparable)

  1. (idiomatic) No longer; not any more.
    • I will pay no more today.
    • He will bother you no more.
  2. (dated) Equally not; not either.
    • - I can't swim.
      - No more can I.
    • You could no more climb that fence than fly!

Interjection

  1. Stop it! Don't continue!
    • The police officer started with another round of questions. “Please, no more. I can't do this anymore.” Janette lay her head down on the kitchen table and cried.2009, C. Leslie Bradley, In Her Dreams

Noun

no more (plural no mores)

  1. (idiomatic, rare) Something that is from a certain point onwards forbidden, or non-existent.
    • So even becoming a doctor created a no more for him — no more guitar playing!2013, Charles K. Stanley, What No Eye Has Seen
    • We didn't like to find the areas where we did not see eye-to-eye because they generated their own list of no mores and made us uncomfortable with each other.2014, Buddy Rogers, The Pain from the Death of a Spouse

Examples of no more in a sentence

  • [There are] No more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks.1972, “School's Out”, performed by Alice Cooper:
  • I think of so many people who are no more, and I pity them.1973, Emil Cioran, translated by Richard Howard, The Trouble With Being Born:

Forms of no more

pluralno mores

Origin of no more

From Middle English no more, nomore, from Old English nā māre, nāmāre.

Words formed from no more

Questions about no more

What does no more mean?
No more means not any more; no further.
How do you use no more in a sentence?
[There are] No more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks.
What part of speech is no more?
No more can be an adjective, an adverb, an interjection or a noun.

Words near no more in the dictionary

  1. no mean feat
  2. no mean feats
  3. no means no
  4. no mill, no meal
  5. no money, no honey
  6. no more
  7. no more Mister Nice Guy
  8. no more Mr Nice Guy
  9. no more Mr. Nice Guy
  10. no more no less
  11. no mores

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