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moreover

UK/mɔːˈɹəʊ.və/US/moɹˈoʊ.vɚ/
adverbB2+Common in everyday speech and writing · #7,624 of 15,258leans written

Moreover means and on top of that. Moreover, the cost is rising, and moreover, it is late.

It adds a point that strengthens the one before, and it is formal, so it belongs to reports and arguments rather than to speech. It goes at the start of a sentence with a comma after it, and furthermore does the same job.

Definitions of moreover

  1. 1adverbmoreoverAnd on top of that.B2+

    “The flat is too small; moreover, the rent is far too high.”

moreover is a connective.

Where it comes from

Middle English more over, meaning further or beyond, written as one word by the fifteenth century.

  1. Middle English

    moreover

  2. English, today

    moreover

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

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

moreover in the wild

  • If Hedemark is to be considered remote, then Finland must be even more so; moreover, Ptolemy does mention the Finns and does not identify them with the Favonae.

    Favonae

  • The puppy is, moreover, generally castrated; so that, when grown up, it can scarcely have any feelings in common with the rest of its kind.

    The Voyage of the Beagle· Charles Darwin

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

From Project Gutenberg, public domain. These sentences are from real books, shown to illustrate the word at work.