Borrowed fromLatinplūs(“more”).

• (Received Pronunciation,General American,Canada)IPA^(key):/plʌs/

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• (General Australian,New Zealand)IPA^(key):/plɐs/,/plas/
• Rhymes:-ʌs

plus

1. And;sum of the previous one and the following one.

   Twoplus two equals four.

   A water molecule is made up of two hydrogen atomsplus one of oxygen.

2. (colloquial) With; having in addition.

   I've won a holiday to Franceplus five hundred euros in spending money!

• and

• minus

plus

1. And also; in addition;besides (which).

   Let's go home now. It's late,plus I'm not feeling too well.

plus (pluralplusesorplusses)

1. Apositivequantity.
   • 2023 April 19, Pip Dunn, “Jack of all trades... and master of most”, inRAIL, number981, page57:

     But thepluses far outweigh the criticisms.

2. Anasset orusefuladdition.

   He is a realplus to the team.

   • 2000 July 6, N. R. Kleinfield, quoting Dog, “Guarding the Borders Of the Hip-Hop Nation”, inThe New York Times‎^[1],→ISSN:

     Look at Trife. He's got two felonies. That means he's finished in society. But he can rap. His two felonies, in rap, man, that's aplus.

3. (arithmetic) Aplus sign:+.
4. Abbreviation ofLGBT+

   (Can we add anexample for this sense?)

• (useful addition):asset
• (arithmetic: plus sign):plus sign

• (antonym(s) of“useful addition”):liability,minus
• (antonym(s) of“arithmetic: plus sign”):minus,minus sign

plus (notcomparable)

1. Beingpositive rather thannegative orzero.

   −2 * −2 = +4 ("minus 2 times minus 2 equalsplus four")

2. Positive, or involvingadvantage.

   He is aplus factor.

3. (physics)Electricallypositive.

   A battery has both aplus pole and a minus pole.

4. (postpositive, somewhatinformal) (Of a quantity)Equal to orgreater than; or more;upwards.

   The bus can fit 60plus kids, but we only get 48.

5. (postpostitive,informal) And more.
   • 1985 August 10, “Personal advertisement”, inGay Community News, volume13, number 5, page13:

     Have you been to Brazil, Bhutan, or Botswana? Well, I haven't and I'm reday^[sic] to go ― almost anywhere interesting actually. Warm, wise world traveler seeks equally exciting, self-sufficient soul for adventuresplus.

• (being positive rather than negative or zero):positive
• (positive, involving advantage):advantageous,good,positive

• (antonym(s) of“being positive rather than negative or zero”):minus,negative
• (antonym(s) of“positive, involving advantage”):bad,disadvantageous,minus,negative

plus (third-person singular simple presentplusesorplusses,present participleplusingorplussing,simple past and past participleplusedorplussed)

1. (informal) Toadd; to subject toaddition.
   • 1973, Australian Council for Educational Research,ACER research series - Issues 93-95, page39:

     For him y is a unique number, like 7, but for the time being unknown — if one does the operation of 'plussing 4' one still has, as a result, a unique number even though one does not yet know what it is.

   • 1974,Control of Human Behavior: Behavior modification in education:

     The teacher observing the behavior of a child who isplussing or not-plussing is observing instances or not-instances of the concept ofplussing.

2. (often followed by 'up') Toincrease inmagnitude.
   • 2006, Danny Fingeroth, Mike Manley,How to Create Comics: From Script to Print,→ISBN, page48:

     I am doing a lot of writing here,plussing the script, adding sequences.

   • 2009, United States Congress House Committee on Homeland Security,The Direction and Viability of the Federal Protective Service:

     We are losing at the street level a number of officers, but we areplussing up deputy positions.

   • 2012, United States Congress House Committee on Armed Services Subcommittee on Military Personnel,Military Retirement Reform, page24:

     And I believe that, if we can't recognize that in retirement, we ought to recognize it inplussing up hazardous duty pay,plussing up sea duty pay and all those other things that recognize people that don't punch out on Saturday, on Friday afternoon and go home, and just, you know, go day after day after day.

3. Toimprove.
   • 1998, Nate Booth,Strategies for Fast-Changing Times,→ISBN, page91:

     Coach Wooden didn't have to depend upon having the most talented players on his team because he could depend uponplussing to constantly make everyone better.

   • 2007, Howard Hendricks,Color Outside the Lines,→ISBN, page123:

     Keep fooling around with it, improving it, and making it better. You know you have a unique factor when someone steals it. So keep the unique factor unique by constantlyplussing it.

   • 2004, Pat Williams, Jim Denney,How to Be Like Walt: Capturing the Disney Magic Every Day of Your Life,→ISBN, page154:

     He was a pioneer inplussing the artform of animated cartoons. He began byplussing Micky Mouse with sound, theplussing the Silly Symphonies with color. Waltplussed the skills of his artists by sending them to art school at his own expense.

4. To providecriticalfeedback by givingsuggestions forimprovement rather thancriticisms.
   • 2013, David Burkus,The Myths of Creativity,→ISBN:

     The animators and directors on the receiving end of the plussing don't necessarily have to accept and incorporate the feedback, butplussing provides a method to share criticisms in a way that makes it more likely that they will.

   • 2014, Steven Krupp, Paul J.H. Schoemaker,Winning the Long Game: How Strategic Leaders Shape the Future,→ISBN:

     Strategic leaders can adapt the US Army's after-action review and Pixar'splussing technique (where you build on ideas rather than critique and subtract) to show their teams how to learn from mistakes.

   • 2014, BusinessNews Publishing,Summary : Little Bets - Peter Sims,→ISBN:

     When people view the early drafts of ideas for their movies under development, they always useplussing to try and come up with suggestions for enhancements. Feedback is always given in an upbeat rather than a derogatory manner.

5. (sales) To selladditionalrelated items with an originalpurchase.
   • 1920,The Current Business Cyclopedia: Business Digest:

     Good will is also secured byplussing the original purchase with another article that goes appropriately with it.

   • 1986, Max Fallek,How to Set Up and Operate Your Own Law Practice:

     Plussing the original sale creates a win-win situation. The customer benefits because it often saves him the time necessary to run back to the store for overlooked items.

6. (psychology) Toframe in apositive light; to provide asympatheticinterpretation.
   • 1979, Douglas A. Puryear,Helping People in Crisis, page87:

     Plussing is a technique for enhancing a positive atmosphere in the session, for diminishing hostility, and for raising self-esteem.

   • 1997, Bernard L. Bloom,Planned short-term psychotherapy: a clinical handbook, page187:

     In addition to active listening as a general therapeutic strategy, Puryear identifies two specific techniques,plussing and paradox, that are used throughout the crisis intervention.

   • 2015, Kenneth France,Crisis Intervention,→ISBN, page177:

     Whenplussing, the intervenor introduces novel viewpoints that can increase the self-esteem of both the attacker and the target.

7. (social media,dated) To give a mark ofapproval onGoogle+.

   Coordinate term:like

   • 2012, Lee Odden,Optimize,→ISBN, page111:

     How do you get others to add you or your brand to their circles? By creating and sharing useful content, commenting,plussing others' content and comments, and engaging with others on Google+.

   • 2014, Ed Catmull,Creativity, Inc.,→ISBN, page279:

     Everyone wasplussing them or liking them or pinning them. The videos went viral.

8. (homeopathy) Toincrease thepotency of aremedy bydiluting it inwater andstirring.
   • 2005, B. Sahni,Transmission of Homoeo Drug Energy from Distance,→ISBN, page188:

     On hearing this,plussing was done (all medicated water of the phial was thrown away and fresh distilled was added and 10 strokes were given) on the 13th February 1974.

   • 2007, Kate Birch,Vaccine Free Prevention and Treatment of Infectious Contagious Disease with Homeopathy,→ISBN:

     From the remaining water a second dilution can be preparedplussing it to the next slightly higher potency.

   • 2011, Kim Lane,Homeopathy for Home: Acute Illness & Injury Care,→ISBN, page29:

     Plussing is used quite frequently in a patient who's quite sensitive or has an acute problem happening or needs to change his dose or need to take it over several days.

9. (optometry) Toincrease acorrection.
   • 1976, David M. Worthen, Perry S. Binder,The intraocular lens in perspective,→ISBN, page 2:

     No aspheric cataract spectacle lens designer has ever given the slightest thought to this 4 to 6 diopters of over-plussing for peripheral vision which is responsible for tremendous peripheral distortion, worse peripheral swim, worse false orientation, worse magnification, severe concave curvature of field ("The floor comes up at you"), increased ring scotoma size and increase jack-in-the-box phenomenon (the "horse-blinder effect") with unsafe walking and driving.

• add
• addition
• times

• ULSP,LPUs,LPUS,ULPs,puls,ulps

• IPA^(key):[ˈplus]

plus

1. plus

   Antonym:minus

   Dva plus dva je čtyři. ―Two plus two equals four.

plus m inan orn

1. plus

when masculine:

Indeclinable when neuter.

• “plus”, inPříruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech),1935–1957
• “plus”, inSlovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech),1960–1971, 1989

Borrowed fromLatinplūs(“more”).

• IPA^(key):/plʏs/

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• Hyphenation:plus
• Rhymes:-ʏs

plus

1. (arithmetic)plus

   Synonym:en

   Antonyms:min,minus

   Tweeplus twee is vier. ―Twoplus two is four.

plus m (pluralplussen,diminutiveplusje n)

1. plus sign;+

   Synonym:plusteken

Ultimately fromLatinplūs(“more”).Doublet ofpli andplu.

• IPA^(key):/plus/

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• Rhymes:-us
• Hyphenation: plus

plus

1. plus

   Antonym:minus

   Duplus du egalas kvar. ―Twoplus two equals four.

FromLatinplūs.

• IPA^(key):/ˈplus/,[ˈplus̠]
• Rhymes:-us
• Syllabification^(key):plus
• Hyphenation^(key):plus

plus

1. plus

   Synonym:(conjunction)ynnä

   Antonym:miinus

plus(not inflected)

1. plus

   Antonym:miinus

• “plus”, inKielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki:Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland),2004–, retrieved2023-07-03

Inherited fromOld Frenchplus

• IPA^(key):/ply/ in its positive sense if followed by an adjective or an adverb not beginning with a vowel, and always in its negative sense (e.g.il est plus grand que moi, orje n'en peux plus)
• IPA^(key):/plyz‿/ in the case of aliaison, i.e. if followed by an adjective or an adverb beginning with a vowel (e.g.tu dois être plus ambitieux)
• IPA^(key):/plys/ in its positive sense, when not followed by an adjective or an adverb (e.g.j'en ai plus que toi oravancez un peu plus, s'il vous plait)
• (Quebec,informal)IPA^(key):/py/ in its negative sense.

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plus

1. more,-er(used to formcomparatives of adjectives)

   Ton voisin estplus mocheque mon frère. ―Your neighbour is uglier than my brother.

   Le tien est beaucoupplus grand que le mien. ―Yours is much bigger than mine.

   Elle estplus belle que sa cousine. ―She ismore beautiful than her cousin.

   Elles sont toutesplus entêtées les unes que les autres. ―They are eachmore stubborn than the last.

2. more,-er(used to formcomparatives of adverbs)

   Elle le faitplus rapidement que lui. ―She does itmore quickly than he does.

   plus vite ! ―faster!

3. (after averb)more,-er(indicating a higher degree or quantity)

   Je travailleplus en ce moment. ―I am workingmore at the moment.

   Je veux faireplus. ―I want to domore.

4. more(indicating a greater quantity) [withde]

   Elle aplus de chocolat. ―She hasmore chocolate.

   Plus de la moitié reste. ―More than half is left.

5. more(supplementary, preceded byde)

   Une heure deplus et il serait mort. ―Onemore hour and he would be dead.

   Un kilo deplus, s’il vous plaît. ―Onemore kilo, please.

6. (preceded by adefinite article) themost,-est(used to formsuperlatives of adjectives and adverbs)

   la plus grande ―the biggest

   le plus difficile ―the most difficult

8. (usually with the negative particlene, see usage notes below)no longer, not ...any more

   Tun’existesplus. ―Youno longer exist. / Youdon't existany more.

   Il n’y aplus de travail. ―There is nomore work.

9. (elliptically, introducing each clause) themore ..., themore ...

   Plus je vois,plus je veux.

   The more I see, the more I want.

10. (similarly, used with other comparatives) themore ..., the ...

    Plus j’écoute, moins je comprends.

    The more I listen, the less I understand.

• There may be some difficulty for non-native speakers to detect the negativity or positivity of "plus". The negative sense is generally used with ane, but the "ne" is sometimes elided or even dropped in colloquial speech. Thus in certain cases, some speakers may choose to pronounce the final/s/ of a positiveplus (as/plys/) in order to make a distinction.

plus m (pluralplus)

1. plus, the symbol +

See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

• IPA^(key):/ply/

plus

1. first/second-personsingular past historic ofplaire

plus m pl

1. (obsolete)masculineplural ofplu

• In modern French, the past participle ofplaire is always invariable, because it is always intransitive.

• “plus”, inTrésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language],2012.

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plus

1. plus, increased by

   Synonyms:mehr,und

   Antonym:minus

   Vierplus eins ergibt fünf. ―4+1=5

• Plus

plus (not comparable)

1. more(used to form comparatives)

le plus

1. themost(used to form superlatives)

• minus

FromOld Latinplous, fromProto-Italic*plēōs (after being levelled in favour of the neuter*plowis), fromProto-Indo-European*pleh₁-,*pelh₁u-(“many”). Cognate withAncient Greekπολύς(polús,“many”),Old Englishfeolo(“much, many”). More atfele. The adverb is anadverbial accusative.

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key):/ˈpluːs/,[ˈpɫ̪uːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key):/ˈplus/,[ˈplus]

plūs (comparative,neuterplūs);third declension

1. comparative degree ofmultus
   1. (more in quantity)more,additionally

Irregularthird-declension comparative adjective.

Note: Singular forms take the genitive of the whole and do not function as adjectives.

plūs

1. comparative degree ofmultō(“by much, by far”):further(more in extent)

   Synonym:magis(magis indicates more indegree')

   Plus ultra! ="Further beyond!" (this is the national motto ofSpain)

• plērus

• “plus”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “plus”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "plus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• plus inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894)Latin Phrase-Book‎^[3], London:Macmillan and Co.
  • twenty years and more:viginti anni et amplius, aut plus
    
  • one, two, several days had passed, intervened:dies unus, alter, plures intercesserant
    
  • to expend great labour on a thing:egregiam operam (multum, plus etc.operae)dare alicui rei
    
  • to discuss a subject more fully on the same lines:plura in eam sententiam disputare
    
  • to give a full, detailed account of a thing:pluribus verbis, copiosius explicare, persequialiquid
    
  • to possess great political insight:plus in re publica videre
    
  • to say nothing further on..:ut plura non dicam
    
  • in short; to be brief:ne multa, quid plura? sed quid opus est plura?
    
  • more of this another time:sed de hoc alias pluribus
    

FromLatinplūs.

plus

1. (withde)more than

• French:plus
• Norman:pus(Jersey)

FromLatinplūs.

plus

1. more
   • 12th century,. Bernard de Ventadour,Lancan folhon bosc e jarric

     ome de me no veiplus ric

     I do not see a richer [more rich] than me

• Occitan:pus,pu,plus

• IPA^(key):/ˈplus/

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• Rhymes:-us
• Syllabification:plus

plus m inan

1. plus,plus sign

   Antonym:minus

• plus inWielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• plus in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed fromLatinplūs. First attested in the early 19th century, acquiring non-mathematical senses by the middle of that century.

• IPA^(key):/ˈplus/
• Rhymes:-us

plus

1. plus,and

plus n (pluralplusuri)

1. plus,addition,extra,surplus

• în plus
• plusa

• “plus”, inDEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian),2004–2025
• Iorgu Iordan,Alexandru Graur,Ion Coteanu, editors (1977),Dicționarul Limbii Române‎^[4], volume8, part 3,Bucharest:Academy of the Socialist Republic of Romania,page875

Borrowed fromLatinplūs(“more”).

• IPA^(key):/ˈplus/[ˈplus]
• Rhymes:-us
• Syllabification:plus

plus m (pluralpluses)

1. bonus(extra earnings)
2. plus(addition to what is considered habitual)

• “plus”, inDiccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8,Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish:Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

plus

1. (mathematics) and,plus

plus n

1. plus sign
2. benefit, advantage

• plussa