much less

English

Conjunction

much less

1. (idiomatic) Let alone; to say nothing of.
   • 1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter xxi:

     Of the thing that sustains him through trials man has no inkling, much less knowledge, at the time.

Synonyms

• let alone
• not to mention

Translations

let alone

• Arabic: نَاهِيكَ عَن (nāhīka ʕan)
• Breton: ne lavaran ket (br)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 更不用說／更不用说 (gèng bùyòng shuō), 何況／何况 (zh) (hékuàng)

• Finnish: vielä vähemmän
• Hungarian: nemhogy (hu)
• Italian: meno che meno
• Japanese: 況してや (mashiteya)
• Polish: nie mówiąc już (o), a co dopiero, a tym bardziej
• Romanian: nemai vorbind
• Scottish Gaelic: gun luaidh
• Swedish: än mindre

References

• “much (or still) less”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.