more than ever
To greatest degree
More than ever intensifies a statement by emphasizing that something is true to a greater degree now than at any previous time.
The phrase typically modifies verbs or adjectives to stress increased urgency, importance, or intensity: Now more than ever, we need to work together.
It often appears in persuasive contexts where speakers want to highlight that present circumstances make something especially pressing or significant.
- unprecedentedNever having occurred before
- right nowAt the present moment
- nowThe present moment
- todayThis present day
- at this momentThe present instant
heightened · historically · increasingly · extreme · urgent · amplified · greater · acutely · awareness · formerly · determined · previously · deeper · profound · intensified · stronger · passionate · desperate
more than everless and less
In diminishing amounts
decreasingly · less so · diminishingly · minimally · barely
more than everhardly ever
Almost not at all
seldom · almost never · infrequently · sporadically · scarcely