I usually just understand it as two or more since we generally translate it as similar sentence in korean When more is used before adjective or adverb as inconvenient in your example, it is an adverb whose primary function is to modify the following word However, when it is used before a noun (or sometimes after a noun), it is used as a determiner or adjective. 13 what's more is an expression that's used when you want to emphasize that the next action or fact is more or as important as the one mentioned What's more, it brings more chaos I have the following sentence, which was said to me to be rather informal (to be used in an introduction sentence in a thesis) electronic devices are getting more and more omnipresent nowadays
The modifies the adverb more and they together form an adverbial modifier that modifies the verb doubt According to wiktionary, the etymology is as follows From middle english, from old english þȳ (“by that, after that, whereby”), originally the instrumental case of the demonstratives sē (masculine) and þæt (neuter). With more than that it means that there is more (something else) beyond what was mentioned earlier You use more than to say that something is true to a greater degree than is necessary or than average Other things matter more than you do
The more, the more you can see all of this in a dictionary example The more (one thing happens), the more (another thing happens) an increase in one thing (an action, occurrence, etc.) causes or correlates to an increase in another thing [1] the more work you do now, the more free time you'll [you will] have this weekend. Of the two, ronald has been the more successful athlete In this structure, “the more” seems to function as a superlative (like “the most” if there were three or more), which can’t be followed by “than”, whereas “more” and “a more” are normal comparatives like you’d expect. There is a shorter answer with fewer details describing various uses of detail in less detail somewhere else, i'm sure.
Sure enough, this ngram shows that stupider got started long after more stupid And once stupider is in, by analogy vapider eventually starts sounding more acceptable.
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