Antonyms for fewest

Grammar : Adj

Spell : fyoo

Phonetic Transcription : fyu

Definition of fewest

Origin : Old English feawe (plural; contracted to fea) "few, seldom, even a little," from Proto-Germanic *faw-, from PIE root *pau- (1) "few, little" (cf. Latin paucus "few, little," paullus "little," parvus "little, small," pauper "poor;" Greek pauros "few, little," pais (genitive paidos) "child;" Latin puer "child, boy," pullus "young animal;" Oscan puklu "child;" Sanskrit potah "a young animal," putrah "son;" Old English fola "young horse;" Old Norse fylja "young female horse;" Old Church Slavonic puta "bird;" Lithuanian putytis "young animal, young bird"). Always plural in Old English.
Phrase few and far between attested from 1660s. Unusual ironic use in quite a few "many" (1883), earlier a good few (1828). The noun is late 12c., fewe, from the adjective.
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. [Winston Churchill, 1940]

adj hardly any

Example sentences :

But I will reckon them as merely equal to those of the state which has the fewest.
Extract from : « The Polity of the Athenians and the Lacedaemonians » by Xenophon

And then I told him the purport of the letters in the fewest words possible.
Extract from : « Against Odds » by Lawrence L. Lynch

Winchester lay the fewest of miles away, but somewhere there was legerdemain.
Extract from : « The Long Roll » by Mary Johnston

I told her, in the fewest possible words, for it might be that our time was brief.
Extract from : « The Pirate of Panama » by William MacLeod Raine

But now tell me the worst, and let that be in the fewest words possible.'
Extract from : « The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2 » by Thomas de Quincey

Between the ages of twenty and thirty, fewest wives have twins.
Extract from : « The Physical Life of Woman: » by Dr. George H Napheys

Facts are engraved Hierograms, for which the fewest have the key.
Extract from : « Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History » by Thomas Carlyle

The one who has had to pay the fewest fines takes the prize,' Denison said with a laugh.
Extract from : « Chatterbox, 1906 » by Various

The heir did his best to settle their every doubt in the fewest possible words.
Extract from : « The Return of Peter Grimm » by David Belasco

Fewest in number are the Turks, comprising only the officials.
Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 » by Various

Synonyms for fewest

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