no more

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Adjective

no more (not comparable)

1. (idiom) Not any more, no further.
   • 1972, Alice Cooper, School's Out

     No more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks.

2. (idiom) Dead.

Adverb

no more (not comparable)

1. (idiom) No longer, not any more
   • 1917, Neil Munro, Lochaber No More

     Farewell to Lochaber, farewell to the glen,

     No more will he wander Lochaber again.

   • 1817, Lord Byron

     So, we'll go no more a roving

   • 1623, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus

     If thou wilt not, befall what may befall,

     I'll speak no more,—but vengeance rot you all!

   • 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.

Related terms

• any more

Translations

• German: nicht mehr

Interjection

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. (idiom, 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!

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