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See also: more-or-less

more or less ‎(not comparable)

approximately
There are hundred people in the room, more or less
- 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, page 5
  The sporophyte foot is also characteristic: it is very broad and more or less lenticular or disciform, as broad or broader than the calyptra stalk […] , and is sessile on the calyptra base […]
almost
I've more or less guaranteed myself a top mark in my final exams.

approximately

Arabic: حَوَالِي ‎(ḥawālī)
Asturian: más o menos
Catalan: més o menys, si fa no fa
Chinese:
Mandarin: 大約 (zh), 大约 (zh) ‎(dàyuē), 左右 (zh) ‎(zuǒyòu), 將近 (zh), 将近 (zh) ‎(jiāngjìn), 大致 (zh) ‎(dàzhì), 或多或少 (zh) ‎(huòduōhuòshǎo), 大概 (zh) ‎(dàgài)
Danish: mere eller mindre
Dutch: min of meer
Esperanto: pli-malpli
Finnish: enemmän tai vähemmän
French: peu ou prou (fr), plus ou moins (fr)
Middle French: poy plus poy moins
Galician: máis ou menos
German: mehr oder weniger, ungefähr (de)
Hebrew: פחות או יותר
Hungarian: többé-kevésbé (hu)
Icelandic: um það bil (is), nokkurn veginn, sirka

Ido: plu o min
Italian: più o meno (it), su per giù (it), approssimativamente (it)
Japanese: およそ ‎(oyoso), 約 (ja) ‎(やく, yaku)
Lithuanian: daugiau ar mažiau
Norwegian:

Bokmål: mer eller mindre

Nynorsk: meir eller mindre
Polish: mniej więcej (pl)
Portuguese: mais ou menos (pt)
Romanian: mai mult sau mai puțin
Russian: бо́лее и́ли ме́нее (ru) ‎(bóleje íli méneje), бо́лее-ме́нее ‎(bóleje-méneje)
Serbo-Croatian: manje-više (sh)
Spanish: más o menos (es)
Swedish: ungefär (sv), mer eller mindre
Tagalog: humigit-kumulang
Telugu: ఎక్కువతక్కువగా ‎(ekkuvatakkuvagā)
Urdu: کم و بیش ‎(kam-o-besh)
Yiddish: מער ווייניקער ‎(mer veyniker), מער אָדער ווייניקער ‎(mer oder veyniker)

almost

Chinese:
Mandarin: 幾乎 (zh), 几乎 (zh) ‎(jīhū), 差點 (zh), 差点 (zh) ‎(chàdiǎn), 差一點 (zh), 差一点 (zh) ‎(chāyīdiǎn), 差不多 (zh) ‎(chàbuduō)
Esperanto: pli aŭ malpli
Finnish: lähes (fi), enemmän tai vähemmän
French: plus ou moins (fr), presque (fr)
German: mehr oder weniger, fast (de)

Icelandic: meira eða minna
Italian: quasi (it)
Japanese: ほとんど (ja) ‎(hotondo)
Portuguese: quase (pt)
Russian: бо́лее и́ли ме́нее (ru) ‎(bóleje íli méneje), бо́лее-ме́нее ‎(bóleje-méneje)
Spanish: casi (es)
Swedish: mer eller mindre