no more

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Adjective

no more (not comparable)

1. (idiomatic) Not any more; no further.
2. (idiomatic) Dead.

   She held him until he was no more.

   • 1969 December 7, Monty Python, “Full Frontal Nudity, Dead Parrot sketch”, in Monty Python's Flying Circus, spoken by Mr Praline (John Cleese):

     This parrot is no more! It has ceased to be! It's expired and gone to meet its maker! This is a late parrot! It's a stiff! Bereft of life, it rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed it to the perch it would be pushing up the daisies!

Adverb

no more (not comparable)

1. (idiomatic) No longer; not any more.

   I will pay no more today.

   He will bother you no more.

   • c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     If thou wilt not, befall what may befall,
     I'll speak no more,—but vengeance rot you all!

   • 1817, Lord Byron, So, we'll go no more a roving:
   • 1917, Neil Munro, Lochaber No More:

     Farewell to Lochaber, farewell to the glen,
     No more will he wander Lochaber again.

   • 1972, “School's Out”, performed by Alice Cooper:

     [There are] No more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks.

   • 1973, Emil Cioran, translated by Richard Howard, The Trouble With Being Born:

     I think of so many people who are no more, and I pity them. Yet they are not so much to be pitied, for they have solved every problem, beginning with the problem of death.

2. (dated) Equally not; not either.

   - I can't swim.
   - No more can I.

Derived terms

• no more Mr. Nice Guy

Related terms

• any more

Translations

not any longer

• Czech: už ne
• Dutch: niet meer
• Esperanto: ne plu
• Finnish: enää (fi) (+ negative)
• French: plus (fr) (+ negative)
• German: nicht mehr, nimmer (de)

  Alemannic German: nüme

• Greek:

  Ancient: οὐκέτι (oukéti), μηκέτι (mēkéti)

• Italian: non più
• Latin: non iam
• Romanian: nu mai
• Serbo-Croatian: više ne
• Swedish: inte mer, inget mer
• Yiddish: מער נישט (mer nisht)

See also

• no less

Interjection

no more

1. Stop it! Don't continue!
   • 2009, C. Leslie Bradley, In Her Dreams:

     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.

Noun

no more (plural no mores)

1. (idiomatic, rare) Something that is from a certain point onwards forbidden, or non-existent.
   • 2013, Charles K. Stanley, What No Eye Has Seen:

     So even becoming a doctor created a no more for him — no more guitar playing!

   • 2014, Buddy Rogers, The Pain from the Death of a Spouse:

     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.

References

• “no more”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “no more”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• Monroe, Moreno, mooner, morone