slightest | faintest + NOUN – English Grammar Profiler

Point in 77 ADJECTIVES/superlatives is defined as:

‘the slightest’, ‘the faintest’ with a specific range of nouns to express the least amount possible, most frequently following a negative verb form.

Who knows what EGP think ‘a specific range of nouns’ is since a search on the site shows no other results, so here we look at an iWeb search for:

the slightest|faintest _N

1 THE SLIGHTEST BIT 4656  (however, ‘bit’ is modifying the adjective. As in ‘I am a bit interested.’)

*top 10 collocates

1 EVEN 1200
2 INTERESTED 184

3 WITHOUT 1804 FEEL 1795 DIFFERENCE 926 ATTENTION 827 SENSE 618 INTEREST 579 SURPRISED 51

10 CONCERNED 49

2 THE SLIGHTEST HINT 2244

3 THE SLIGHTEST IDEA 1663

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