English

Adjective

more so ‎(not comparable)

1. Contextual comparative. Modifies another adjective (to which the "so" is a direct anaphoric reference), indicating a greater degree of the quality in question.
   • 1866, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment, page 251:

     She was always shy in such circumstances and was always afraid of new people, and was even more so now.