moreover.

Introducing an additional point that strengthens or extends the preceding one.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• moreover
• the evidence
• and
• it suggests

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The measure is costly; moreover, it reaches few of the households most in need.

The archive is incomplete. Moreover, its surviving records were selected by the officials being studied.

The route is shorter and, moreover, avoids the toll road.

Usage notes

Primary category: academic. Formal linking adverb; stronger rhetorical accumulation than neutral also. Use only when the new point genuinely adds support, not when it contradicts the first. Adverb; invariant, with no inflected forms.