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least

 
 
/liːst/ quantifier

Translation

the smallest amount
en az, en düşük
She earns the least money of all of us. Jake had more experience than anyone else and I probably had the least.1805
to say the least used to emphasize that you could have said something in a much stronger way
en azından, abartısız, en hafif deyimiyle
We were surprised, to say the least.1155
(Definition of least quantifier from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish © Cambridge University Press)

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