moreover

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
15
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/mɔːˈɹəʊ.və/
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/mɔːˈɹəʊ.və/ · /moɹˈoʊ.vɚ/ · /moːˈɹəʉ.və/ · /moːˈɹɐʉ.və/

Definition of moreover

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adv

  1. (conjunctive, not-comparable)In addition to what has been said.
    “For three years there had been pestilence, and in the last of the three a famine; moreover, there was imminence of war.”
    “The characteristics ‘terrestrial’ and ‘two-footed’ are predicated of the species ‘man’, but not present in it. For they are not in man. Moreover, the definition of the differentia may be predicated of that of which the differentia itself is predicated.”
    “A curious thing about the ontological problem is its simplicity. It can be put in three Anglo-Saxon monosyllables: ‘What is there?’ It can be answered, moreover, in a word—‘Everything’—and everyone will accept this answer as true.”

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Etymology

Inherited from Middle English moreover, moreovere, morover, mooreover, more-overe, mare over, equivalent to more + over.

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