moreso
See also: more so
English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]moreso (not comparable)
- Nonstandard spelling of more so.
- 1969, Nels Anderson, “The Uses and Worth of Language”, in Nels Anderson, editor, Studies in Multilingualism, E. J. Brill, page 1:
- Food and other essential resources are limited, and are likely to become moreso.
- 1997, Hana S. Noor Al-Deen, Cross-Cultural Communication and Aging in the United States, page 30:
- We grow more like ourselves in our past, only moreso.
- 2000, Conrad Totman, A History of Japan, page 337:
- Consequently, he concluded, new arrangements are necessary and will become moreso in future.
- 2004, Jeffrey B. Little, Understanding Wall Street, page 140:
- The investment environment in the seven years immediately preceding the 1987 crash was as favorable, if not moreso, than the years prior to the 1929 crash.
Usage notes
[edit]Though it is frequent in informal writing, some arbiters of English usage[1][2][3] consider “moreso” an incorrect form of “more so”, sometimes citing the fact that in many cases the "so" is included tautologically, and the word “more” is all that is needed.