at most
As a maximum
At most sets an upper limit—the quantity or degree cannot exceed what follows.
The repair will take at most two hours means it might take less but certainly not more.
At most ten people showed up leaves room for fewer.
The phrase often hedges estimates downward, signaling that reality probably falls below the stated ceiling.
- maximumGreatest permitted quantity
- constraintLimiting condition or rule
- ceilingRoom's upper surface
- capCovering for top
- topsUppermost parts or garments
permissible · allowable · up to · restriction · bounded · finite · upper limit · scarcely · cutoff · upper bound · hard limit · barely · threshold · peak · limit · conditional · best case scenario · modest
- phrasesnoun phrases, noun phrase, verb phrase, prepositional phrase, prepositional phrases
- smallnesssmall, little, tiny, mini, miniature
- restrictorsonly, just, merely, solely, exclusively