most especially

1. 1.

   above and beyond all other consideration

   “above all, you must be independent”

   Synonymsabove allmost importantly

Questions about most especially

What does most especially mean?

most especially means "above and beyond all other consideration".

What is another word for most especially?

Close synonyms include above all, most importantly. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is most especially a common word?

most especially is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.