What does the word most mean? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Most is defined by the attributes you apply to it "Most of your time" would imply more than half, "the most time" implies more than the rest in your stated set Your time implies your total time, where the most time implies more than the rest I think "most" leads to a great deal of ambiguity
meaning - Is most equivalent to a majority of? - English Language . . . Here "most" means "a plurality" Most dentists recommend Colgate toothpaste Here it is ambiguous about whether there is a bare majority or a comfortable majority From the 2nd Language Log link: I searched on Google for the pattern "most * percent", and picked out of the first 150 hits all the examples like these:
grammar - Is it most or the most or most of time? - English . . . These are questions that most people could answer Another way to look at it: "What TV show do you spend most of the time watching?" is a loaded question It already implies that I spend most of my time watching TV Compare it to "What spills do you spend most of the time cleaning up?" which will annoy me because I don't spill anything
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