LEAST OF ALL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does least of all mean? 

• LEAST OF ALL (adverb)
  The adverb LEAST OF ALL has 1 sense:

1. especially not

  Familiarity information: LEAST OF ALL used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LEAST OF ALL (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Especially not

Context example:

nobody, least of all Joe, agreed with me

 Context examples 

Least of all things was I a mechanic, and in that time I accomplished what an ordinary machinist would have done in as many hours.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

You must not die by any hand; but least of all by your own.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I am sure smoking hurts you; and besides, it is not good to be a slave to anything, to a drug least of all.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Any gap at your fireside on such a night—such a gap least of all—I wouldn't make, for the wealth of the Indies!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He quite laughed when I asked him the question, and said there was no fear; no man in his senses, or out of them, would put off in such a gale of wind, least of all Ham Peggotty, who had been born to seafaring.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I am not so unreasonable as to expect, said Agnes, resuming her usual tone, after a little while, that you will, or that you can, at once, change any sentiment that has become a conviction to you; least of all a sentiment that is rooted in your trusting disposition.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)