the least bit

1. 1.

   in the slightest degree or in any respect

   “Are you at all interested? No, not at all”

   “was not in the least unfriendly”

   Synonymsat allin the least

Questions about the least bit

What does the least bit mean?

the least bit means "in the slightest degree or in any respect".

What is another word for the least bit?

Close synonyms include at all, in the least. 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 the least bit a common word?

the least bit 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.